On 09/25/2014 12:27 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:47:43AM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > >>> This would be my take also, getting pkgs into EPEL is a pretty well >>> defined process as is a becoming a packager. I don't see an extra >>> step/group >>> is needed within CentOS is needed. >> >> It is defined. It's also perceived as cumbersome, laborious and painful, >> and so many would-be contributors don't even attempt to contribute. This >> is simply a proposal allowing those who are willing to act in place of >> the original packagers to help contribute. > > If the packages are going to meet Fedora's guidelines, the current > process is not as bad as it might be perceived. If someone is qualified > and motivated it is very easy to become package maintainer and if you > have several people who want to contribute they can easily review each > others packages to show that they are qualified and I am very confident > that it won't be hard to find a sponsor then.
I don't disagree. It's partly the perception that's keeping people from attempting it. I'm hoping that this would provide a method to help smooth that perception over. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
