18:01:01 <smooge> #startmeeting EPEL
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18:01:01 <smooge> #meetingname EPEL
18:01:01 <zodbot> The meeting name has been set to 'epel'
18:01:01 <smooge> #chair smooge nirik Evolution bstinson avij
18:01:01 <smooge> #topic aloha
18:01:01 <zodbot> Current chairs: Evolution avij bstinson nirik smooge
18:01:47 <avij> hello
18:01:51 <nirik> morning
18:01:51 <smooge> hello
18:02:25 <bstinson> hey all
18:02:39 <smooge> going to look for the rest and will move onto the other parts of the meeting
18:03:07 <smooge> hi guys
18:03:37 <smooge> #topic Old Business
18:03:37 <smooge> #info EPEL state of the union at FLOCK
18:03:37 <smooge> #info EPEL activity session at FLOCK
18:04:19 <smooge> I was wanting to see if people had a list of things they wanted addressed in FLOCK items. I want to have a writeup of what I talking about by end of next week
18:05:54 <smooge> The main itesm on the state of the union would be the current growth of EPEL usage in different places, what things needing help on and why we arent moving as quickly as people want
18:06:17 <smooge> I don't think I have much more on that but if people would like things addressed please let me know
18:07:28 <Evolution> nothing to add here.
18:07:54 <smooge> OK well if you do get feedback from people about wanting stuff looked at in the state of the union let me know
18:08:17 <smooge> I am also hoping to get the focus on the 90 minutes a bit more so we aren't just sitting around waiting for beer oclock
18:08:28 <smooge> #topic old packages in testing
18:08:50 <smooge> Ok we have a bunch of packages which have been in #updates-testing for a looong time
18:09:40 <smooge> 862  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-1087   dokuwiki-0-0.24.20140929c.el7
18:09:53 <smooge> 624  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-dac7ed832f   mcollective-2.8.4-1.el7
18:09:53 <smooge> 206  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-04bc9dd81d   libbsd-0.8.3-1.el7
18:09:53 <smooge> 104  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-d241156dfe   mod_cluster-1.3.3-10.el7
18:09:54 <smooge> 102  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-5f9a6163b4   tnef-1.4.14-1.el7
18:09:54 <smooge> 101  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-7ecb12e378   python-XStatic-jquery-ui-1.12.0.1-1.el7
18:10:46 <smooge> I think need to look at trying to get some karma on them or something. I expect most of these packages are 'dead'
18:11:44 <smooge> Does anyone have any idea on what a policy might look like?
18:12:07 <avij> well, it'd be nice if we could get people to actually test those packages ..
18:12:54 <avij> which might be difficult
18:13:30 <Evolution> would it be appropriate to suggest automated testing in some fashion here?
18:13:47 <smooge> well it would require us to make the testing happen
18:13:48 <Evolution> ci.centos running known tests for these packages?
18:13:53 <Evolution> right.
18:14:09 <Evolution> the tests would need to come from somewhere. doesn't help the *current* ancient packages
18:14:23 <smooge> which requires us writing tests that centos could run.
18:14:50 <smooge> I don't mind doing that but I think it needs some sort of focused person pushing that
18:15:21 <bstinson> we can run just about anything, this may fit in with the existing fedora-qa project that we have in its infancy
18:15:22 <smooge> who writes tests for stuff in ci these days? I don't think they magically get written
18:15:33 <bstinson> but depchecks/install tests might be helpful
18:15:34 <smooge> by AIs
18:15:51 <Evolution> smooge: some get pulled from upstream tests
18:16:02 <Evolution> bstinson: would know best about the rest
18:18:02 <smooge> ok so lets put that as a must do for the FLOCK. We must have some level of package testing done inside of CI :)
18:18:11 <bstinson> there's a proposed 'one-test-format-to-rule-them-all' that is kicking around
18:18:14 <bstinson> sec..
18:19:16 * nirik is back... my gateway machine eth locked up. reading back.
18:19:35 <bstinson> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/InvokingTests
18:20:00 <Evolution> oooh, work to do at flock
18:20:01 <Evolution> I like it
18:20:25 <nirik> I'm ok with trying to get them karma or just unpushing them if they don't... since no maintainer has pushed them stable
18:21:12 <smooge> nirik, do we have policies already in other parts for this sort of thing? Or would I be drafting up something from scratch?
18:21:26 <nirik> no, nothing I know of... there's some old ones in fedora too.
18:22:44 <smooge> ok I will write something up this weekend for next week
18:24:18 <smooge> alright I wanted to start going through our documents and either updating, deleting, moving to GIT etc
18:24:33 <smooge> #topic Updating https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Updates_Policy
18:24:48 <smooge> I figure we can try to do 1-2 pages a meeting
18:25:50 <nirik> that one looks mostly fine to me...
18:26:17 <smooge> Any additions or removals from it? After everyone has looked at it let me know
18:29:45 <bstinson> looks ok to me, maybe we could merge the incompatible upgrades policy doc with this (so it's all in one place) and find an illustrative example of an incompatible upgrade
18:31:14 <smooge> OK I will look at that
18:31:16 <nirik> that sounds fine to me.
18:31:33 <smooge> mediawiki
18:31:58 <smooge> was a good example in the past.. but less so
18:32:09 <smooge> Evolution, avij anything on this?
18:32:30 <Evolution> nah. bstinson nailed my thinking already with putting the incompat upgrades in the same place
18:32:42 <Evolution> anything else I'd suggest would be tooling the webpage ala git
18:32:55 <smooge> tooling the webpage?
18:32:57 <Evolution> then allowing bikeshedding of updates in pr for things
18:33:10 <smooge> my plan was to write this in our epel pagure
18:33:17 <smooge> so I guess that is what you meant?
18:33:22 <Evolution> yes that
18:33:32 <bstinson> +!
18:33:35 <bstinson> 1, even
18:33:55 <smooge> ok cool
18:34:08 <smooge> OK next one for this meeting
18:34:13 <avij> ok, I agree with the above
18:34:16 <smooge> #topic Updating https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL-meeting-process
18:36:14 <smooge> As you can tell... I have been following this one to the LETTER
18:36:33 <bstinson> small thing, i just edited the meeeting template to reflect the current membership
18:36:58 <nirik> we stole this from the fesco one. ;)
18:37:07 <nirik> I think it is assuming we are meeting on fridays.
18:38:00 <smooge> I think this document needs a lot of work..
18:38:29 <smooge> first off would somehting like this be useful for someone other than me to run the meetings
18:39:15 <bstinson> templates are definitely helpful
18:39:28 <nirik> it could be. it needs a s/Friday/Wed/ at least
18:40:17 <smooge> ok will add that to the fix list
18:40:38 <smooge> alright that is enough looking at dead webpages
18:40:51 <smooge> #topic open doolf
18:41:17 <smooge> anything for the general meeting? anything we need to look at next week?
18:42:06 <Evolution> are we planning a semi-official EPEL thing for flock?
18:42:24 <smooge> I have 2 items for FLOCK
18:42:35 <smooge> s/I/We/
18:42:44 <smooge> 1. A State of the Union for Flock
18:43:08 <smooge> 2. A 90 minute workshop on EPEL stuff.. which we need to iron out by say the 9th
18:43:46 <smooge> Evolution, does that cover it or were you thinking "Beer"
18:44:22 <smooge> or taking a bunch of RHEL-5 boxed sets to a beach and setting them on fire while trying to summon Dagon from the depths?
18:45:34 <Evolution> I was thinking "hackfest" or bug triage or similar
18:45:38 <Evolution> but beer works too
18:46:31 <bstinson> porque no los dos?
18:47:46 <smooge> Evolution, I titled the hackfest : "EPEL For the Future"
18:48:52 <Evolution> that works.
18:49:03 <smooge> I cant find what I wrote for it though
18:50:33 <smooge> but we do have a hackfest
18:50:40 <smooge> ok I think I am about out of juice
18:50:49 <smooge> if no one else has anything else, we can end it all now
18:51:01 <smooge> thank you all for coming
18:51:16 <smooge> #endmeeting