EPEL Retire from maintainership duties

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello All!
I'm going to stop further maintaining all EL branches of the following packages:

* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/peter?acls=owner

(sorry, but I don't know how to pick up only those who have EL5 and
EL6 branches so here is a full list).

Most notable packages are - the entire Erlang stack with dependent
packages such as CouchDB, Ejabberd, RabbitMQ, Riak.

I will continue maintaining Fedora branches of these packages btw.

[Michael Stahnke]

I'm curious as to why. Feel to reply off list if you think this is too
off-topic.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> Hello All!
> I'm going to stop further maintaining all EL branches of the following packages:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/peter?acls=owner
>
> (sorry, but I don't know how to pick up only those who have EL5 and
> EL6 branches so here is a full list).
>
> Most notable packages are - the entire Erlang stack with dependent
> packages such as CouchDB, Ejabberd, RabbitMQ, Riak.
> I will continue maintaining Fedora branches of these packages btw.
>
> With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
> _______________________________________________
> epel-devel mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel

[Sam Kottler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Stahnke" 
> To: "EPEL Development List" 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:37:34 PM
> Subject: Re: EPEL Retire from maintainership duties
>
> I'm curious as to why. Feel to reply off list if you think this is too
> off-topic.
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> > Hello All!
> > I'm going to stop further maintaining all EL branches of the following
> > packages:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/peter?acls=owner
> >
> > (sorry, but I don't know how to pick up only those who have EL5 and
> > EL6 branches so here is a full list).
> >
> > Most notable packages are - the entire Erlang stack with dependent
> > packages such as CouchDB, Ejabberd, RabbitMQ, Riak.

I'll take over nagios-plugins, nagios-plugins-check_sip, and nrpe.

Can you orphan those packages so I can become the owner?

-S
> > I will continue maintaining Fedora branches of these packages btw.
> >
> > With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
> > _______________________________________________
> > epel-devel mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
>
> epel-devel mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel

[Peter Lemenkov]

2013/11/7 Sam Kottler :
> I'll take over nagios-plugins, nagios-plugins-check_sip, and nrpe.
>
> Can you orphan those packages so I can become the owner?

Done.

[Ken Dreyer]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> Hello All!
> I'm going to stop further maintaining all EL branches of the following packages:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/peter?acls=owner
>
> (sorry, but I don't know how to pick up only those who have EL5 and
> EL6 branches so here is a full list).
>
> Most notable packages are - the entire Erlang stack with dependent
> packages such as CouchDB, Ejabberd, RabbitMQ, Riak.
>
> I will continue maintaining Fedora branches of these packages btw.

Thanks a lot for maintaining ejabberd. I actually just set this
service up last week on a CentOS 6 server, and my co-workers are
benefitting from the work that you've done to make it a smooth
experience in EPEL.

By the way, speaking as a user, if there's a choice between "no one
steps up, so the package gets retired in EPEL", and "push an
incompatible update to EPEL", please just push whatever updates you
want.

- Ken

[Peter Lemenkov]

2013/11/7 Ken Dreyer :
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Peter Lemenkov  wrote:
> Thanks a lot for maintaining ejabberd. I actually just set this
> service up last week on a CentOS 6 server, and my co-workers are
> benefitting from the work that you've done to make it a smooth
> experience in EPEL.

Unless you have a RHEL license, consider using Debian or Ubuntu LTS
for that. They have a sane model of updating packages and picking up
from "testing" branches. Also I'd recommend packages from the upstream
vendor:

http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/archive/

Although they stopped building rpms but anyway their packages are more
up-to-date and not very different from Fedora/EPEl ones (missing parts
are systemd integration, polkit, preliminary kerberos support and few
more - nothing really serious).