#fedora-meeting: EPEL (2022-07-06)

Meeting summary

1. howdy (carlwgeorge, 20:02:53)
   
2. EPEL issues (carlwgeorge, 20:05:21)
   1. https://pagure.io/epel/issues?tags=meeting&status=Open (carlwgeorge, 20:05:34)
   2. https://pagure.io/epel/issue/39 (carlwgeorge, 20:06:20)
   
   
3. Old Business (carlwgeorge, 20:09:57)
   1. https://pagure.io/epel/pull-request/184 (carlwgeorge, 20:10:08)
   2. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/44 (carlwgeorge, 20:14:20)
   
   
4. EPEL-7 (carlwgeorge, 20:17:51)
   1. epel7 will be retired on 2024-06-30 in line with the end of the rhel7 maintenance 2 phase (carlwgeorge, 20:18:19)
   
   
5. EPEL-8 (carlwgeorge, 20:21:29)
   1. epel8-next will be retired on 2024-05-31 in line with the c8s eol (end of rhel8 full support phase) (carlwgeorge, 20:21:38)
   2. ACTION: gotmax[m] to start an epel-devel thread about EPEL and appstream retirements (gotmax[m], 20:36:19)
   3. RHEL 8.7 will have a major release bump of ansible-core (2.12.x > 2.13.x) and switch from being built against python38 to python39. (gotmax[m], 20:38:21)
   4. ACTION: nirik will merge and build https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/44 (carlwgeorge, 20:44:49)
   
   
6. EPEL-9 (carlwgeorge, 20:45:26)
   
7. General Issues / Open Floor (carlwgeorge, 20:48:59)

Action items

1. gotmax[m] to start an epel-devel thread about EPEL and appstream retirements
2. nirik will merge and build https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/44

Action items, by person

1. gotmax[m]
   1. gotmax[m] to start an epel-devel thread about EPEL and appstream retirements
2. nirik
   1. nirik will merge and build https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/44

People present (lines said)

1. gotmax[m] (77)
2. carlwgeorge (72)
3. smooge (23)
4. nirik (22)
5. zodbot (14)
6. tdawson (8)
7. rcallicotte (6)
8. davide (3)
9. pgreco (1)