[EPEL-devel] Re: Proposal: Dropping modules from EPEL-8. Not adding modules to EPEL-9

2022-09-07 Thread Petr Pisar
V Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 05:08:59PM -0400, Stephen Smoogen napsal(a): > When EPEL-8 was launched, it came with some support for modules with the > hope that a module ecosystem could be built from Fedora packages using RHEL > modules as an underlying tool. This has never happened and we have ended up

[EPEL-devel] Re: Proposal: Dropping modules from EPEL-8. Not adding modules to EPEL-9

2022-09-07 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 10:04, Petr Pisar wrote: > V Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 05:08:59PM -0400, Stephen Smoogen napsal(a): > > When EPEL-8 was launched, it came with some support for modules with the > > hope that a module ecosystem could be built from Fedora packages using > RHEL > > modules as an un

[EPEL-devel] Re: Proposal: Dropping modules from EPEL-8. Not adding modules to EPEL-9

2022-09-07 Thread Maxwell G via epel-devel
Sep 7, 2022 9:04:57 AM Petr Pisar : What we could do is write a notice about the end of life into the module summaries and rebuild the modules. That way users running "dnf module list" could see the message. But people upgrading after the module removal wouldn't see anything. We would have ke

[EPEL-devel] Re: Proposal: Dropping modules from EPEL-8. Not adding modules to EPEL-9

2022-09-07 Thread Jaroslav Mracek
I am curios - Is there any benefit of the proposal for end users? I think that end users are the most important part of the chain - be honest they are only reason why developers exist. Somehow I feel that we are going to resolve infrastructure problem (missing feature, support for maintainers,