Re: Release and update procedure for EPEL

[Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora leemhuis info>]

Matthias Saou schrieb:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote :
>> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 13:53 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:30:50PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
>>>> FP! :-)
>>>> Joke aside, I'd like to see which views we have on the release and
>>>> update procedure to apply to EPEL.
>>>> - Do we want a moving (and potentially breaking) set of packages which
>>>>   is constantly being updated?
>>> The CentOS way
>>>
>>>> - 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?
>>> More RHEL like
>> FWIW, the CentOS people I spoke to at FOSDEM were very much interested
>> in the "fixed set, with bugfixes and security updates only" model.

I agree with the "fixed set, with bugfixes and security updates only", too.

But also with this:

> ...but also in providing a lot of recent stuff. They already have php 5
> and mysql 5 in a separate location for people to use on CentOS 4.

But I'd say we should leave this out for now until EPEL lift of, and
find a a solution for this later.

CU
thl