Re: EPEL only packages? Review process?

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 22:07:43 -0800
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd bludgeon org> wrote:

> Hi folks;
> 
> I recently submitted a package for review that is intended for EPEL
> only:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474430
> 
> Reason being that this python module is included already in Fedora,
> but is not present in RHEL 4 or 5.
> 
> There wasn't really a procedure for this type of thing, so the product
> I filed it under was the standard "rawhide".
> 
> Anything I should perhaps do differently in this case or am I going
> about it in the right way?

Isn't the procedure for this to ask the Fedora maintainer if they're
interested in maintaining an EPEL branch for the package - if so, to
branch and build it possibly with you as comaintainer, if not, add you
as maintainer of a new EPEL branch?

Paul.