On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 at 14:42, Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Currently the default days to stable for EPEL is 14 days. > I believe when it was first put in it was set to that time because we wanted > things more stable and better tested. But experience has found that if a > package is going to get tested, it usually is in the first few days of when > it was built. Thus 14 days seems to be 4 days of testing, and 10 days of > sitting. > > I am proposing that we change the "days to stable" for epel to 7 days, > matching Fedora's "days to stable". > > People have asked that the epel-next "days to stable" be dropped down to 3 > days, matching Fedora when it is in it's development phase. The reasoning is > that epel-next is built off CentOS Stream, which only has 6 months at the > most before it is rolled into the next RHEL release. > > If people could give any cases for, or against these, please respond here. > The EPEL Steering Committee will have a vote at our next meeting (July 28). >
I am personally for these. The world has changed.. and the reasons for EPEL having a wait were when people were active in testing packages. These days, people just want stuff and having them wait 14 days no longer matches that. [Personally I even wonder if updates-testing makes sense from the very small usage of it.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on BBS... time to reboot. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
