21:00:10 <tdawson> #startmeeting EPEL (2023-01-11)
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21:00:12 <tdawson> #meetingname epel
21:00:12 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel'
21:00:13 <tdawson> #chair nirik tdawson pgreco carlwgeorge salimma dcavalca dherrera gotmax[m] smooge
21:00:13 <zodbot> Current chairs: carlwgeorge dcavalca dherrera gotmax[m] nirik pgreco salimma smooge tdawson
21:00:15 <tdawson> #topic aloha
21:00:16 <rsc> .hello robert
21:00:17 <zodbot> rsc: robert 'Robert Scheck' <redhat@linuxnetz.de>
21:00:18 <pgreco> .hi
21:00:20 <zodbot> pgreco: pgreco 'Pablo Sebastian Greco' <pablo@fliagreco.com.ar>
21:00:27 <nirik> good morning everyone. Happy new year.
21:00:28 <tdawson> Hello rsc
21:00:31 <tdawson> Hi pgreco
21:00:39 <dherrera> .hi
21:00:40 <salimma> .hi
21:00:40 <zodbot> dherrera: dherrera 'Diego Herrera' <dherrera@redhat.com>
21:00:43 <zodbot> salimma: salimma 'Michel Alexandre Salim' <michel@michel-slm.name>
21:00:54 <tdawson> Hi dherrera and salimma
21:00:58 <tdawson> Good morning nirik
21:01:16 <salimma> it's morning somewhere :)
21:01:31 <pgreco> certainly not here
21:01:35 <pgreco> 10PM, hehehe
21:02:19 <tdawson> unless I'm mistaken, carlwgeorge will not be here this week.
21:02:43 <dherrera> most likely he wont
21:03:46 <yselkowitz[m]> .hello yselkowitz
21:03:47 <zodbot> yselkowitz[m]: yselkowitz 'Yaakov Selkowitz' <yselkowi@redhat.com>
21:03:55 <tdawson> Hello yselkowitz[m]
21:04:36 <tdawson> yselkowitz[m]: We don't see you too often.  Are you here for something specific, or just here to be here?
21:05:33 <tdawson> OK ... it's 5 after ... starting
21:05:34 <yselkowitz[m]> nothing specific, this is not a good time slot in the winter but I've got a bit of time
21:05:52 <tdawson> yselkowitz[m]: Sounds good, you are always welcome.
21:05:54 <tdawson> #topic End Of Life (EOL)
21:05:55 <tdawson> RHEL 7 will go EOL on 2024-06-30
21:05:57 <tdawson> CentOS Stream 8 goes EOL in 2024-05-31
21:05:58 <tdawson> CentOS Stream 9 goes EOL in 2027-05-31
21:06:10 <salimma> yselkowitz: ah, you're somewhere without daylight saving? sounds nice and warm :)
21:06:19 <tdawson> #topic EPEL Issues https://pagure.io/epel/issues
21:06:20 <tdawson> https://pagure.io/epel/issues?tags=meeting&status=Open
21:06:48 <tdawson> Hmm ... nothing marked for the meeting.
21:06:56 <tdawson> This might be a short one.
21:07:19 <tdawson> #topic Old Business
21:07:29 <salimma> this is also the one time when CentOS Board meets at the same time, so Davide is not here
21:07:56 <tdawson> How could he choose the Board over us :)
21:08:24 <tdawson> I read through last weeks, and there was some discussion on an openvpn update for epel 7 and 8
21:08:53 <pgreco> incompatible upgrade due to cve iirc
21:09:04 <tdawson> I didn't see any more details on email or IRC (though I might have missed it on IRC) ...
21:09:12 <salimma> IIRC we agree it's probably worth doing via the incompatible upgrade process?
21:09:19 <salimma> nah, not CVE but the old version reaches EOL soon
21:09:46 <pgreco> oh, ok
21:10:16 <tdawson> Did the package maintainer reply  what their thoughts were?
21:11:08 <salimma> um, did any of us follow up with the PM?
21:11:59 <nirik> it sounds like it's going to be needed, but yeah, should get package maintainer(s) aware of it and onboard
21:12:27 <tdawson> Good thing nobody really uses it ... it's not like all of Red Hat uses that package :(
21:12:58 <salimma> where was this originally discussed, does anyone remember? I don't see it on epel-devel
21:13:30 <tdawson> I don't either ... smooge brought it up and he said something about a bugzilla, but I couldn't find any bugzilla about it.
21:14:05 <dherrera> I remmember it was asked in the #epel chat on the same day
21:14:27 <tdawson> Ahh ... ok
21:14:31 <dherrera> no, it was on the day before
21:14:58 <nirik> it should get a more... perm discussion location. ;)
21:15:03 <salimma> agreed
21:15:24 <salimma> would someone who remember the original discussion want to follow up with the maintainer, say on the mailing list and bugzilla?
21:16:00 <tdawson> From the meeting logs, it looks like smooge was the one who brought it up here.  I'll give him a ping this week.
21:16:38 <dherrera> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157946
21:16:49 <dherrera> they did open a ticket about it in that conversation
21:17:33 <tdawson> Ahh ... and it was closed with "I intend to keep the OpenVPN 2.4 packages up-to-date in regards to security patches and such"
21:17:48 <nirik> ok then. problem solved. ;)
21:18:04 <tdawson> Yep, looks like it.
21:18:12 <salimma> ah ok
21:18:19 <tdawson> That's probrubly why I couldn't find it, I didn't look in the closed bugs.
21:18:52 <tdawson> So ... I don't have any other old business
21:19:08 <tdawson> #topic General Issues / Open Floor
21:19:19 <pgreco> I have a comment mostly
21:19:22 <tdawson> Sure
21:19:46 <pgreco> I'll be almost certainly out the next 2 weeks, and then we have the week of fosdem
21:20:44 <tdawson> I'm curious how many here will be at fosdem ... I won't be, so I'll still be available.
21:21:04 <pgreco> I will, also wondering who else will
21:21:27 <salimma> I'll be remotely attending at the CentOS Connect the day before
21:21:35 <salimma> but sadly will miss FOSDEM itself (visa snafu)
21:22:28 <tdawson> That sounds like me, I plan on being remote for the CentOS Connect, but not much beyond that.
21:22:42 * nirik will not be at fosdem
21:23:35 <tdawson> So, it looks like it's a short meeting this week.   I'm good with that.
21:23:43 <tdawson> Anything else before I close the meeting this week?
21:24:36 <tdawson> Thank you all for coming, as well as all your work for the EPEL community
21:24:40 <dherrera> one thing, I want to join the packagers sig role :) been doing related work without needing the role until now
21:25:01 <dherrera> should i file a ticket for that?
21:25:01 <salimma> ooh
21:25:13 <salimma> yeah, I think file a ticket then we vote on it? should be a formality
21:25:18 <nirik> yep
21:25:25 <tdawson> dherrera: Oh ... I thought you already were.   Yes ... as salimma said.
21:25:37 <dherrera> 👍
21:26:21 <dherrera> havent needed since i've been mostly opening tickets for uninstallable packages or sending patches to maintainers directly xD
21:26:34 <dherrera> i'll open a ticket then
21:27:02 <tdawson> And with that ... I'll talk to ya'll next week, if not sooner.
21:27:15 <tdawson> #endmeeting