On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 03:05:16PM -0800, Troy Dawson wrote: > As we are getting closer to the F34 branching, which means we are > getting closer to CentOS 9 Stream, which will eventually be turned > into RHEL9 Beta, and then RHEL9 release. Now seems like a good time > to get ideas flowing about EPEL9. > > I'm just throwing ideas around. Nothing I'm saying here is even close > to policy or a final plan. If people have other ideas, feel free to > say them. > > epel8-next is getting closer and closer to being in place. > To me it seems logical to create a epel9-next, pointing at the CentOS > 9 Stream (when it comes). It would need the same setting up as > epel8-next, all the steps would be the same other than the name and > where it points for it's repo. > > We could also setup some type of signup board for if maintainers want > the EPEL Packaging SIG to automatically bring their packages over. > > With epel9-next in place, and good set of EPEL9 packages in it, users > would be able to test RHEL9 much better in it's beta phase. > > Also, it would take alot of pressure off when we start getting regular > EPEL9 setup. If it takes a month or two, people wouldn't be as > concerned, because they could always just grab the packages from > epel9-next.
I think that could be workable, but I'll toss out another proposal: As soon as centos 9 stream exists, we create epel9-playground and allow people to branch/add packages to it. Once rhel9 is GA, we setup epel9 as usual and epel9-next and point epel9-next to build against stream and playground to build against rhel9. The advantages of that would be that epel9-playground is more rawhide like... it would compose every night and there's no bodhi overhead. Of course to be confusing we could just treat epel9-stream that way until GA too I suppose. In any case as soon as centos 9 stream is ready, I think it would indeed be a great idea to start allowing epel builds against it one way or another. :) kevin
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