Hello,
as a RHEL/CentOS SCL maintainer, I could spend some time maintaining Node.js in Fedora too. Between releases it might be around 10+hrs per week, otherwise I could spend around 4hrs on Fedora.
Here's the thread about LTS:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/...
We could always have COPR repo with latest release.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hughes" tom@compton.nu To: "Node.js on Fedora" nodejs@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 9:29:42 AM Subject: Re: Intent to orphan nodejs
On 02/06/16 07:52, Tomas Hrcka wrote:
and as you mentioned spec file seems to be in good shape thanks for that. Do you really mean LTS release? Because current LTS is 4.2 but stable is 6.2.
Yes, he meant LTS. See previous discussion on fedora-devel.
I am in contact with multiple consumers of nodejs and current stable release may be better choice for fedora. Another option is to have LTS in current fedora release and latest stable in rawhide. Stable releases are much more useful in context of fedora since its used mostly by devels and we have LTS in centos as scl.
Non-LTS releases only have a lifespan of IIRC about 9 months, and a Fedora Release has a lifespan of 13 months.
So if we don't stick to LTS then we either have to do a major version bump in a released version of Fedora or we have to backport security fixes ourselves.
That's why we reverted back to node 4 for F24 having initially tried to go to node 5.
Tom