On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 11:42:30AM -0700, Troy Dawson 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.
Well, we don't actually know when it might be tested. ;) I think there's lots of folks out there that consume fedora updates-testing and epel updates-testing and only add negative karma when things break. If they don't break, they just ignore it... > 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 guess I'm fine with changing it, but it's hard to say how much effect it will have. Perhaps we could gather some stats and revisit it after some time? kevin
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