Excerpts from Antonio Trande's message of 2014-09-25 17:15:45 +0200: > Hi Jim. > > On 09/25/2014 04:36 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > > Earlier this week on the CentOS devel list I proposed an interim method > > to help make it easier for centos contributions to flow into epel. > > > > Essentially the proposal is that CentOS would like a 'curator' group > > (name can be determined later) similar to the wrangler's group. > > > > Members of this group would be responsible for shepherding packages > > designated by the various SIG efforts in CentOS through the process of > > getting these packages in epel. This means that rather than having an > > individual owner, packages would have group ownership. Members of this > > group will be required to have access to make package modifications on > > the CentOS side so that they meet the packaging standards for EPEL. > > Additionally, it would help to have an EPEL proven packager as part of > > the group as well in order to help make things move a little quicker. > > > > Would this be acceptable from an EPEL standpoint? What would be required > > from an EPEL perspective to make this happen? > > > EPEL is for RHEL, Scientific Linux, Oracle Enterprice other than CentOS; > would we need of special "curator" group for every distro? > CentOS contributions could flow simply by taking part on EPEL and by > integrating any special (previously discussed) packaging need . > 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.
Group ownership of pkgs in EPEL? So many people can own a package already. I am unsure what the 'wrangler' group example is. -- -- Steve Traylen, CERN IT. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
