#meeting-1:fedoraproject.org log

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:00:30

!startmeeting EPEL (2026-01-21)

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

18:00:32

Meeting started at 2026-01-21 18:00:30 UTC

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

18:00:32

The Meeting name is 'EPEL (2026-01-21)'

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:00:39

!topic aloha

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:00:39

!meetingname epel

<@meetbot:fedora.im>

18:00:40

The Meeting Name is now epel

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:00:49

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:00:50

Diego Herrera (dherrera) - he / him / his

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:01:03

Hi Diego Herrera

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:01:45

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:01:46

Carl George (carlwgeorge) - he / him / his

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:02:57

Hi Carl George

<@elguero:fedora.im>

18:03:35

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:03:36

Michael Young (elguero)

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:04:21

morning

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:04:22

Hi Michael L. Young

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:04:28

Morning nirik

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:04:30

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:04:32

Neal Gompa (ngompa) - he / him / his

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:04:36

Hi Conan Kudo

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:05:12

!link https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/docs/pulls

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:05:12

!topic EPEL Issues https://pagure.io/epel/issues

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:05:12

!link https://pagure.io/epel/issues?tags=meeting&status=Open

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:05:31

We have two issues marked for meeting, although we talked about one last week.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:05:53

!epel 355

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:05:55

● **Last Updated:** 6 days ago

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:05:55

**epel #355** (https://pagure.io/epel/issue/355):**Transition from Pagure to Forgejo instance**

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:05:55

● **Assignee:** Not Assigned

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:05:55

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:05:55

● **Opened:** 3 months ago by dherrera

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:06:23

If I remember correctly, we decided to do this work in the first week of February.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:06:40

But we kept the meeting label on, so on that week, we won't forget it.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:07:20

Yep, it says that in the comment, so moving on.

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:07:34

FYI, qa has a checklist thing that I used for the infra move that could be helpful.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:08:10

Cool. Could you put that in a comment for the issue?

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:08:29

https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/836

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:08:30

please share :D

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:08:32

sure

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:09:03

oh, this is nice ^-^ I'll look into it

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:09:52

Anything else before we move on?

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:10:20

fine with moving on ^^

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:10:31

!epel 322

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:10:31

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:10:31

● **Assignee:** Not Assigned

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:10:31

● **Last Updated:** 6 days ago

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:10:31

● **Opened:** 10 months ago by tdawson

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:10:31

**epel #322** (https://pagure.io/epel/issue/322):**Document EPEL policy on packages with epel in the name**

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:10:48

And it's related pull request...

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:11:00

!link https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/docs/pulls/358

<@rcallicotte:fedora.im>

18:11:22

!hi

<@zodbot:fedora.im>

18:11:23

Robby Callicotte (rcallicotte) - he / him / his

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:11:29

Hi Robby Callicotte

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:11:38

i'm ready to merge as-is, but did have a "what if" question in the comments

<@rcallicotte:fedora.im>

18:11:46

I'm juggling another meeting :)

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:12:04

basically it's written for an `-epel` suffix, but we could adjust it to be be `epel` in the package name at all

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:12:20

i'm not sure if it's necessary

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:13:15

I'm good with it being just 'epel' ... I can think of people thinking, Hey, I'm going to call this epel-xyz ...

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:14:11

You'd have to do a little tweeking, because you have "-epel suffixes" ... and if it's at the beginning, it wouldn't be a suffix.

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:14:55

really it should just be epel-release and epel-rpm-macros, i can't think of any others

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:15:15

Correct, which is why it would be good for someone else to not make one.

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:15:38

we could merge as-is, call it good enough, and switch it to an `epel` string if the situation arises in the future

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:15:46

or i can rework this pr, i'm fine either way

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:16:01

That sounds like a good plan.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:16:09

Because I really like what you have.

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:16:36

I think that other uses of epel should just be reserved

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:16:59

let's just fully reserve the name

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:17:03

we can always adjust if there comes another case.

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:17:03

yeah

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:19:04

Conan Kudo: Are you ok with merging what we have now, and adding something that expands it to reserve the whole name?

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:19:15

yeah sure

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:19:31

it occurs to me we need to add all the esc members to the epel forge org

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:19:36

there probably needs to be a fedora-level doc about reserved names though

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:19:49

that should be brought up to fpc

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:20:03

I just worry that if we don't merge this now, it will be several weeks before we merge it.

<@dherrera:fedora.im>

18:20:44

just merged it 👍️

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:22:23

Does someone want to write up a new issue dealing with reserving the epel name ?

<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>

18:22:44

yeah I'll file it with fpc

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:22:44

Since it will be a little bit different, It would be good to close this one, and create a new one.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:22:57

Sounds good.

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:23:06

fedora probably needs the same policy

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:23:41

Ya, once they have their policy, we can put a link in this section to that.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:23:51

Anything else on this before we move on?

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:24:16

!topic Old Business

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:24:36

Does anyone have any old business they want to bring up?

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:25:39

Looking like a no ... so I'll move on to Open Floor.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:25:47

!topic General Issues / Open Floor

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:26:17

Hmmm ... maybe I should have brought this up in Old Business, but next week we have canceled this meeting.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:26:57

That came out wierd. This meeting has been canceled for next week. That sounds better.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:29:04

I'm not getting back from FOSDOM until Tuesday Feb 3rd. If nobody sees me anywhere on Wedensday Feb 4th ... assume I have the FOSDOM Flu, and someone else can run the meeting.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:30:01

Any other Open Floor items?

<@carlwgeorge:fedora.im>

18:30:25

hope to see some of y'all at the epel hackfest and esc panel at connect

<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>

18:30:44

everyone have safe travels and a good time at connect/fosdem!

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:32:41

Looks like nobody has anything else. Are we ok closing early?

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:33:41

Sounds like ya'll want to end early.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:34:01

See some of ya'll next week, and the rest I'll talk to you in two weeks.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:34:13

Thank ya'll for all you do for EPEL and it's community.

<@tdawson:fedora.im>

18:34:32

!endmeeting