On 12 August 2016 at 04:04, Zuzana Svetlikova <zsvet...@redhat.com> wrote: > Unless we decide to go the "both lts versions" path, I'd update nodejs. > I see no point in having packages, that are unmaintained by upstream, in > the repo. >
No problem. I am just wanting to get the correct picture of the plan in my head . > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smo...@gmail.com> > To: "EPEL Development List" <epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Cc: "Zuzana Svetlikova" <zsvet...@redhat.com>, epel-devel-l...@redhat.com, > epel-de...@fedoraproject.org > Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 6:11:14 PM > Subject: Re: [EPEL-devel] Re: nodejs update > > On 11 August 2016 at 07:43, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> tl;dr Need to update nodejs, but can't decide if v4 or v6, >>> v4: will update sooner, shorter support (2018-04-01) >>> v6: longer support (2019-04-01), *might* break more things, >>> won't be in stable sooner than mid-October if everything >>> goes well >> >> FYI, I think this tl;dr missed explaining why v6 won't be in stable until >> mid-October. What Zuzana and I discussed on another list is that the Node.js >> v6 >> schedule has it going into LTS mode on the same day that 0.10.x reaches EOL. >> However, v6 is already out and available. The major thing that changes at >> that >> point is just that from then on, they commit to adding no more major features >> (as I understand it). This is the best moment for us to switch over to it. >> >> However, in the meantime we will probably want to be carrying 6.x in >> updates-testing for at least a month prior to declaring it stable (with >> autokarma disabled) with wide announcements about the impending upgrade. This >> will be safe to do since Node.js 6.x has already reached a point where no >> backwards-incompatible changes are allowed in, so we can start the migration >> process early. >> > > How will the packages be named? Are we doing this as nodejs6 or nodejs? > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
