RFC: Package maintenance and update policy for EPEL -- take 1

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Thorsten Leemhuis schrieb:
> Patrice Dumas schrieb:
>> This seems right to me. And I don't find that complicated.
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
>> I also had another thought. Maybe it could be possible to avoid packages
>> in the testing repo to be published when the release time comes and the 
>> maintainer feels that it is not ready for the stable branch. In the 
>> document this looks like the push is more or less 'automatic'.
> 
> Well, it'd say it should be automatic. But removing packages should of
> course be possible, but it should not happen that often; so I'd say we
> should be able to handle it just like we do in Extras (e.g. a repo
> requests page in the wiki for removals). I don't think it's worth
> mentioning in this page.

I changed my mind and will add a small note.

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