Re: Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Matthias Saou (thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net) said: 
> - Do we want a moving (and potentially breaking) set of packages which
>   is constantly being updated?
> - De we want a fixed set of packages when a RHEL release is made and
>   focus on major bugfixes and security updates from there on?
> 
> Or maybe something in between, or even both at the same time in
> separate repositories... all is possible, as long as we have enough man
> power to make it happen.

I'd lean somewhat towards the latter. If we actually intend to maintain
stuff for 7 years, we're not going to be wanting to do that many upgrades.

Are packagers really signing up for backporting?

Bill