00:00:00 < knurd> | Meeting ping dgilmore, Jeff_S, knurd, mmcgrath, nirik, stahnma, quaid and everyone interested in EPEL -- EPEL meeting in #fedora-meeting now! 00:00:00 < knurd> | Hi everybody; who's around? 00:00:00 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Sig meeting -- Meeting rules at http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MeetingGuidelines -- Init process 00:00:02 * | knurd likes to remind people that the schedule and the topic list for todays meeting can be found on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule 00:00:15 < f13> | I'm here by accident. 00:00:30 * | dgilmore is here 00:00:45 < Jeff_S> | f13: that's what my parents said too :( 00:00:52 < dgilmore> | f13: we will take you as one of our own :) 00:01:22 < knurd> | mmcgrath ponged in #epel 00:01:26 * | Jeff_S here and making lame jokes 00:01:50 < knurd> | well, let's start slowly 00:02:01 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – broken deps – Jeff_S, All 00:02:28 < mmcgrath> | Doah :) 00:02:31 < mmcgrath> | pong 00:02:34 < knurd> | the stuff mether posted to #epel really annoys me 00:02:46 < knurd> | why fuse one day before we want to annouce EPEL 00:02:51 < knurd> | and then obviously broken? 00:02:56 * | marek is here too 00:03:04 < marek> | hello guys, my first meeting 00:03:05 < knurd> | (in case it's true what mether wrote, but I assume that for now) 00:03:08 < knurd> | hi marek 00:03:19 < knurd> | anyway, how to move on 00:03:21 < f13> | knurd: you mean epel-list? 00:03:26 < knurd> | f13, yes 00:03:34 < dgilmore> | knurd: thats Rhaul for you 00:03:39 < f13> | er epel-devel-list 00:03:47 < knurd> | move those to testing which I porposed on epel-devel-list? 00:04:03 < knurd> | f13, there is only epel-devel-list (at least afaik) 00:04:04 --> | jbowes (James Bowes) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:04:15 < knurd> | dgilmore, ? 00:04:28 < dgilmore> | knurd: it seems to be what he does best lately 00:04:32 < dgilmore> | anyways 00:04:40 < dgilmore> | knurd: there is only the one list 00:04:44 < knurd> | ohh :-) 00:04:44 < Jeff_S> | ok, well if he's correct then let's move them to testing (or remove them) 00:04:48 <-- | svahl has quit ("Ex-Chat") 00:04:51 < knurd> | Jeff_S, +1 00:04:54 < marek> | is there any consideration to postpone the announce of EPEL? 00:04:57 < knurd> | what about the other broken deps? 00:05:09 < knurd> | marek, we could do that, but it looks bad 00:05:22 < mether> | dgilmore: i cant really guess that fuse was going to be pushed out before it was 00:05:25 < knurd> | I#d prefer to get EPEL5 in shape now, and annouce EPEL and EPEL5 00:05:26 < mmcgrath> | knurd: I think people have been responsive. 00:05:26 < Jeff_S> | knurd: at first I didn't like the idea of putting them in testing/ but the idea is growing on me 00:05:31 < marek> | better to release good product later, that bad product at time (imho) 00:05:48 < knurd> | marek, yeah, but otherwise we might never release... 00:06:06 < Jeff_S> | mmcgrath: yep, it seems like some people are taking the initiative to get their deps into EPEL 00:06:09 < quaid> | release early, release often :) 00:06:11 < knurd> | Jeff_S, yeah, we should fix everything in testing soon as well 00:06:27 < dgilmore> | knurd: so anything broken needs to get moved into testing 00:06:35 < knurd> | dgilmore, well, I posted to the list 00:06:37 < dgilmore> | which is manual but needs doing 00:06:39 < knurd> | some stuff is in progress 00:06:43 < Jeff_S> | knurd: yes, I don't like having things broken in /testing/ but at least people can see what's there and build on that 00:06:44 < knurd> | dgilmore, yeah, that's manual 00:06:52 < knurd> | dgilmore, if you give me access I can handle it 00:07:22 < knurd> | (in case you are busy with other stuff) 00:07:23 < stahnma> | here now 00:07:30 < dgilmore> | knurd: i can get you setup. or i can do it 00:07:39 * | dgilmore is traveling toomoroow 00:07:54 < knurd> | dgilmore, well, I'd think it might be a good idea if I or someone else gets access 00:08:08 < knurd> | as you and mmcgrath seems to be a bottleneck afaics 00:08:12 < dgilmore> | knurd: :) we will make it happen 00:08:19 < knurd> | dgilmore, k, thx 00:08:31 < knurd> | what about EPEL4? shall we try to fix that up in a similar way? 00:08:49 < Jeff_S> | knurd: yes 00:09:21 < knurd> | I'm busy tomorrow at 18:00 UTC, but I think it could try to fix everything up to then 00:09:55 < knurd> | quaid, could you send the annoucement afterwards? 00:10:25 < knurd> | dgilmore, can you give me access later today or early tomorrow? 00:10:34 < knurd> | then I'll try to fix everything 00:10:42 < knurd> | dgilmore, but you'd need to adjust the push scripts 00:10:47 < quaid> | knurd: sure 00:10:53 < knurd> | to make sure that all the new stuff from now own goes to testing 00:11:04 < knurd> | otherwise we'll have broken deps soon again 00:11:05 < dgilmore> | knurd: yes 00:11:11 < knurd> | dgilmore, k, thx 00:11:17 < knurd> | anything else regarding this topic? 00:11:33 < mmcgrath> | knurd: one quick question. What exactly are dgilmore and I the bottlenecks of? 00:11:39 < Jeff_S> | well, the yum-related packages I posted earlier 00:11:51 < Jeff_S> | I'd rather have those in the main repo than in testing/ 00:11:54 < knurd> | mmcgrath, not exactly bottlenecks, but you are busy and have lots of load already 00:11:59 < Jeff_S> | but that's just my opinion :) 00:12:04 < mmcgrath> | knurd: what hasn't been getting done? 00:12:22 < knurd> | mmcgrath, it wasn#t meant as offense 00:12:37 < knurd> | but I would have fixed the deps days agao if I would have had access 00:12:42 * | mmcgrath not offended, just confused. We can't branch and build peopels packages for them. 00:12:56 < knurd> | mmcgrath, sure, I meant the moving 00:13:05 < knurd> | I'd preferred to have that done last weekend or so 00:13:06 < mmcgrath> | ahh, well have fun :) 00:13:07 < dgilmore> | knurd: we will need to change mock configs on the builders also 00:13:16 < knurd> | dgilmore, upphs 00:13:21 < knurd> | dgilmore, can you handle that? 00:13:32 < dgilmore> | we will want whats in testing in the buildroot 00:13:36 < knurd> | dgilmore, +1 00:13:39 < dgilmore> | yes 00:13:41 < Jeff_S> | yes 00:13:49 < stahnma> | yes 00:14:19 < knurd> | k, so I'll get acess and fix the broken deps and dgilmore will update the mock configs and the push scripts 00:14:20 < quaid> | sorry, did we pick a time (yet) for official door opening/ 00:14:29 < quaid> | or just be ready to announce when it is ready? 00:14:50 < knurd> | quaid, I'd say we should aim 15:00 UTC 00:15:08 < knurd> | quaid, I'll give you a heads up when I have the deps fixed 00:15:15 < knurd> | does that sound like a plan? 00:15:59 < quaid> | ok 00:16:38 < knurd> | mmcgrath, are you around tomorrow in case I need help and in case dgilmore is traveling? 00:17:06 < mmcgrath> | knurd: yep 00:17:11 < knurd> | great 00:17:17 * | knurd moves on then 00:17:23 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – when to run the spam o magic script – mmcgrath 00:17:33 < knurd> | mmcgrath, could the script run when we push new pacakges? 00:17:42 < knurd> | that's what Extras did/does 00:17:56 < knurd> | that sounds a bit better then just once a week 00:18:03 < knurd> | at least if it isn#t to hard to set up 00:00:19 * | knurd moves on for now, we can get back if needed 00:00:23 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not 00:00:30 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react – knurd 00:00:40 < mmcgrath> | knurd: the spam-o-matic script? Probably not. It takes over an hour to run right now. 00:00:52 <-- | giallu has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 00:20:03 < knurd> | mmcgrath, could it just be triggered to run maybe? 00:20:07 <-- | JSchmitt has quit ("Konversation terminated!") 00:20:11 < knurd> | then nobody would have to wait for it 00:20:14 < mmcgrath> | http://git.fedoraproject.org/hosted/fedora-infrastructure.git/scripts/?p=hos... 00:20:20 < stahnma> | any idea why it takes over an hour? Is that normal (I just don't know) 00:20:22 < Jeff_S> | mmcgrath: how many repos is it looking at? repoview takes a few minutes at the most for me 00:20:33 < mmcgrath> | stahnma: not really, I'd have to take a look. 00:20:47 < mmcgrath> | Perhaps we should re-think what we're doing. 00:21:14 < mmcgrath> | we're looking to do more of a "Sorry, we couldn't push this file because of these deps:" 00:21:23 < mmcgrath> | and so they'd stay in needsign. 00:21:27 < mmcgrath> | dgilmore: does that make sense? 00:21:34 < mmcgrath> | s/push this file/push this package/ 00:21:43 < knurd> | mmcgrath, won't we get that with bodhi soon? 00:21:48 < dgilmore> | mmcgrath: yeah 00:22:08 < mmcgrath> | knurd: 'soon' is very misleading. 00:22:10 < dgilmore> | knurd: its not known we we will be able to move that way 00:22:18 < knurd> | k, was just wondering 00:22:28 < dgilmore> | knurd: it will probably be many months 00:22:33 < mmcgrath> | knurd: I have a suspicion it won't be in there until someone steps up and submits the patches. 00:22:47 < knurd> | k 00:23:14 < knurd> | in that case it might be worth to enhance the current push scripts 00:23:33 < stahnma> | brb 00:23:37 < mmcgrath> | stahnma: well it only takes an hour for epel5, epel4 is significantly faster. 00:23:39 < knurd> | k, so back to the current topic 00:23:45 < knurd> | branch for EPEL if Fedora maintainer does not react 00:23:50 <-- | Kevin_Kofler has left #fedora-meeting ( "Bye!") 00:23:54 < knurd> | is https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2007-July/msg00104.html fine for everyone? 00:23:59 <-- | LetoTo has left #fedora-meeting ( ) 00:24:16 < knurd> | gets a +1 from me 00:24:19 --> | LetoTo (Paul Wouters) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:24:37 < marek> | +1 from my side 00:24:48 <-- | LetoTo has quit (Client Quit) 00:24:53 < Jeff_S> | +1 00:24:55 * | knurd will wait until we get 4 +1 from steering committee members 00:25:05 < dgilmore> | knurd: as long as someone and no 00:25:05 < dgilmore> | more than one month has passed, then the EPEL maintainer of the package 00:25:05 < dgilmore> | must hand primary per release maintainership back to the Fedora 00:25:08 < dgilmore> | maintainer (and become comaintainer, if interested). 00:25:11 < dgilmore> | gahh 00:25:15 --> | LetoTo (Paul Wouters) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:25:24 <-- | LetoTo has quit (Remote closed the connection) 00:25:24 < dgilmore> | that doesnt rub overly well with me 00:25:33 < knurd> | then why didn#t you post to the list 00:25:39 < knurd> | dgilmore, could you do that please 00:25:47 < knurd> | then we'll get to this topic in next weeks meeting 00:26:03 < dgilmore> | i think we simplify it and say if the maintainer wants to work on EPEL then great both people become co maintainers 00:26:04 < stahnma> | I thought that was changed on list, to something like, become comaintainers or something 00:26:18 < stahnma> | dgilmore: +1 00:26:27 * | Jeff_S happy either way 00:26:30 < dgilmore> | otherwise im good with it 00:26:33 < knurd> | dgilmore, can you work out the wording? 00:26:34 < stahnma> | me too 00:26:43 < knurd> | dgilmore, then we'll ACk it next week 00:27:07 < dgilmore> | knurd: sure 00:27:12 < knurd> | dgilmore, tia 00:27:19 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – EPEL announcement -- everything ready? – quaid, all 00:27:23 < knurd> | we discussed this already 00:27:28 < knurd> | did we miss anything? 00:27:48 < stahnma> | do we want some blogs/articles on it? 00:27:55 < knurd> | stahnma, good idea 00:28:05 < stahnma> | I can write up something on opensource.apress.com 00:28:20 < stahnma> | and maybe try to get something into newsforge, if I have time 00:28:31 < knurd> | stahnma, would be great 00:28:41 < knurd> | I'll try to blog about it as well 00:28:58 * | knurd moves on 00:29:02 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting – new meeting time? – all (see also 00:29:03 < knurd> | http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/NewMeetingTime ) 00:29:29 < knurd> | dgilmore, your times are still missing 00:30:11 < knurd> | stahnma, yours as well afaics 00:30:14 < dgilmore> | knurd: i have not had time to look at it. 00:30:21 < quaid> | huh, weird 00:30:25 < quaid> | how did I get up there? 00:30:30 < quaid> | must be the old numbers :) 00:30:42 < knurd> | quaid, check the history; no idea... 00:30:43 * | quaid thinks they are still good 00:30:44 < Jeff_S> | quaid: I think you edited the page I created and I moved your times over 00:30:47 * | stahnma doesn't really care for any of the times....I'm at my dayjob during the entire open schedule 00:30:50 < quaid> | ok, yeah 00:30:52 < Jeff_S> | but I don't remember :) 00:31:27 --- | knurd has changed the topic to: EPEL Meeting -- Free discussion around EPEL 00:31:30 < knurd> | anything else? 00:31:35 * | mmcgrath has nothing. 00:31:54 < marek> | I want to ask, what do you think about security response team for EPEL? 00:32:13 < Jeff_S> | any thoughts about those yum-related packages I posted? It'd be nice to get those taken care of for EPEL-4 00:32:15 < dgilmore> | marek: its needed you volunteering? 00:32:30 < knurd> | marek, I'm all for having one, but such issues should be discussed on the list IMHO 00:32:36 < quaid> | yep 00:32:37 < marek> | dgilmore: not yet, just an idea. I want to know what do you think about it 00:32:44 < knurd> | marek, that's for the initial discussion a lot easier than here in the meeting 00:32:48 < quaid> | we should be coordinate with the main Fedora SRT 00:32:48 <-- | k0k has quit (No route to host) 00:32:49 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: we cant do yum for epel 00:32:50 < marek> | ok, I'll bring it to the list 00:32:58 < Jeff_S> | dgilmore: why not? 00:33:01 < knurd> | Jeff_S, I like the plan, but didn't look at the packages itself 00:33:06 < Jeff_S> | I thought we decided it was needed? 00:33:16 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: because RHEL is not available in a way yum could use 00:33:40 < stahnma> | Jeff_S: I like what you did. It fixes the gap for people trying to use yum-utils or createrepo on RHEL 4 00:33:41 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: so if you went to yum install a package from epel and needed RHEL deps your screwed 00:33:52 < stahnma> | ah 00:33:55 < knurd> | marek, many thx 00:34:10 < knurd> | dgilmore, yum is mainly needed for mock afaik 00:34:10 < quaid> | dgilmore: but ... wouldn't you just get a list of deps and could go up2date them? 00:34:21 < knurd> | or am I missing something here? 00:34:22 < dgilmore> | quaid: you could but thats ugly 00:34:32 < mmcgrath> | cobbler has yum deps (which was how we started talking about it) 00:34:32 < Jeff_S> | dgilmore: it is not there to become the system update tool for RHEL (although people could do that if they really wanted) -- but this will let people build things which rely on yum, yum-utils, etc. 00:34:39 < dgilmore> | up2date the package from epel direct 00:34:46 < quaid> | k 00:34:53 < mmcgrath> | hink in that case, yum will just have to be another tool on RHEL4, and not one they can update their system with. 00:34:57 < Jeff_S> | it's not providing any repo files 00:34:59 * | quaid didn't realize up2date in RHEL 4 supported yum repos 00:35:10 < stahnma> | it does....poorly 00:35:20 * | stahnma loves up2date (ducks) 00:35:28 < marek> | yes, but it isn't very good :/ 00:36:01 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: i feel if its there people will expect it to work as an update tool 00:36:01 < knurd> | Jeff_S, why do we need yum? for mock? for something else? dgilmore's point is valid 00:36:29 < Jeff_S> | currently it was needed to have cobbler (which needs yum-utils, which needs yum) 00:36:44 < Jeff_S> | I think there were some other requests, but I don't recall off the top of my head 00:37:06 < knurd> | Jeff_S, i#d say wwe go without yum for now and look closer at the issues at hand later 00:37:23 < knurd> | even if that means to move mock into testing/4/ for now 00:37:29 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: we need to be super careful here we need to use the a EVR lower version than CentOS 00:37:40 < stahnma> | I think Jeff_S did that 00:37:41 < mmcgrath> | perhaps we should document it very well in the yum config files. 00:37:51 < mmcgrath> | which, by default, would point to nothing (not even epel) 00:37:54 < Jeff_S> | dgilmore: yes, I did that 00:37:58 < dgilmore> | an d we need to make sure people understand they can not use itto keep there RHEL box up2date 00:38:04 < Jeff_S> | mmcgrath: yep, there is only yum.conf but it doesn't point to any repos 00:38:51 < mmcgrath> | I think thats reasonable. 00:38:55 < Jeff_S> | ok, maybe we need to discuss this more on the list? 00:38:58 --> | rdieter (Rex Dieter) has joined #fedora-meeting 00:39:00 < knurd> | Jeff_S, +1 00:39:16 < stahnma> | +1 00:39:23 < Jeff_S> | the thread was 'packages that conflict with centos?' -- and everyone that responded was positive about including them... 00:40:19 < knurd> | Jeff_S, that afaics seems to become more and more a problem 00:40:24 < knurd> | we discuss stuff on the list 00:40:37 < knurd> | and then suddenly someone raises problems in hte meetings 00:40:45 < knurd> | and the whole discussion restarts 00:40:52 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: we need tomake sure it does not touch CentOS setups in bad ways 00:40:52 < knurd> | that#s a bit annoying 00:41:08 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: epel-release has an epel repo file 00:41:19 < mmcgrath> | knurd: I much prefer that to people not showing up to the meeting and commenting on the notes after the fact. 00:41:44 < quaid> | we have to recognize that sometimes people only pay attention when a meeting is happening 00:41:49 < stahnma> | specifically for Yum-based users in epel-release, this could be difficult 00:41:52 < quaid> | because of busyness .. "Wow, it's been a week?!?" 00:41:54 < Jeff_S> | dgilmore: agreed... They all have a lower release number than the centos versions, so a centos-4 machine should never install them in the first place 00:41:56 < knurd> | mmcgrath, maybe, but raising stuff directly when it gets discussed it teven better 00:42:16 < quaid> | knurd: so maybe if someone comes in late, we can quickly decide if the conversation needs to continue ... 00:42:40 < quaid> | knurd: OT -- what do you think about the idea that nothing can leave a list for a vote in a meeting until there is a consensus to vote? 00:42:45 < stahnma> | if they have epel-release isntalled and then install yum, will yum on RHEL try to be an update tool? 00:42:46 < quaid> | is that too much bureaucracy? :) 00:43:21 < knurd> | quaid, liekly :-/ 00:43:24 < Jeff_S> | stahnma: if someone tries to use it as such, yes 00:43:41 < knurd> | quaid, but the idea has some appeal nevertheless 00:43:49 < quaid> | knurd: then we are always going to have that situation ... 00:43:55 < quaid> | maybe a guideline rather than a rule 00:44:04 < knurd> | quaid, the problem at hand would not be solved 00:44:07 < quaid> | but it could be good across _all_ projects/sigs 00:44:08 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: my main concern is that people dont try use it on RHEL it just wont work there 00:44:09 < quaid> | true 00:44:13 * | quaid did note it was OT:) 00:44:24 < dgilmore> | Jeff_S: we could probably not put a yum.conf in at all 00:44:24 < knurd> | someone that did not take part in the discussion could step up in the meeting and say "hell, no" 00:44:39 < stahnma> | dgilmore: perhaps we should test that 00:44:43 < stahnma> | that might work 00:45:37 < knurd> | anyway, any more stuff to discuss? 00:45:42 < knurd> | or shall I close the meeting? 00:45:47 * | dgilmore needs to go to the colo 00:45:52 < dgilmore> | please clos e 00:46:00 < stahnma> | thanks all 00:46:03 * | knurd will close the meeting in 30 00:46:08 <-- | stahnma has left #fedora-meeting ( "Time for something else....") 00:46:26 * | knurd will close the meeting in 15 00:46:41 < knurd> | -- MARK -- Meeting end
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