Tag: EPEL

EPEL 10 is now available

On behalf of the EPEL Steering Committee, I’m happy to announce the availability of EPEL 10. EPEL 10 already contains over 10,000 packages, built from over 3,600 source packages. This is a result of the hard work of over 150 Fedora package maintainers.

What is EPEL?

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is an initiative within the Fedora Project to provide high quality additional packages for CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The goal for EPEL packages is to enhance these distributions, without disturbing or replacing packages from the default repositories.

What’s new?

For the EPEL 9 release, we started building packages about six months before the RHEL 9 release by using CentOS Stream 9 as the initial build environment. For EPEL 10, we’re expanding on that approach and doing the same thing for each minor version of RHEL 10. We will have separate DNF repositories for each minor version of RHEL 10, including CentOS Stream 10 as the leading minor version. Packages built for one minor version will carry forward to the next minor version. You can find more details about this structure in our branching documentation.

Requesting packages

While many packages are already available in EPEL 10, it’s possible that your favorite package isn’t one of them yet. We don’t automatically branch packages from the previous major version to the next major version. Individual package maintainers opt-in to building for each new major version. You can request additional packages by following our package request guide.

Getting started

Ready to start using EPEL 10? Check out our getting started guide for instructions to set up the repository on your system.

F40 Elections: Nominations now open & welcoming EPEL

Hello Fedorans! The F40 election campaign is now in full swing, and this cycle will be running a little differently than the previous F39, F38, etc. We are welcoming the EPEL Steering Committee to our elections cycle and having our Council elections move to once per year too. Read on for the details 🙂

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EPEL Survey Results 2022 -2023

The EPEL team that operates as part of the Red Hat Community Platform Engineering (CPE) group, has ran two surveys over the years 2022 and 2023, with the purpose of understanding how Fedora and EPEL community members use and contribute to EPEL, and their overall satisfaction with EPEL. The results of these surveys will help us prioritize our future work and plan activities for the growth of the project, and since we believe that this results might be interesting for the wider audience, we decided to share them here.

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FESCo election: Interview with Jonathan Wright

This is a part of the Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Friday, 8 December and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Thursday, 21 December.

Interview with Jonathan Wright

  • Fedora User Account: Jonathan Wright
  • IRC/Nick: jonathanspw
  • Matrix Channels typically found in: #fedora, #fedora-devel, #epel, #epel-devel, #centos-devel, #almalinux, #centos-hyperscale
  • Fedora User Wiki Page
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CPE Quarterly Update Q1 2023

This is a summary of the work done by Red Hat’s Community Platform Engineering (CPE) Team. Each quarter, the CPE Team, together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives, chooses initiatives to work on. The CPE Team is then split into multiple smaller sub-teams that will work on chosen initiatives + day to day work that needs to be done. Some of the sub-teams are continuous efforts in the team and some are created only for the initiative project.

This update is made from infographics and detailed updates. If you want to just see what’s new, check the infographics. If you want more details continue reading.

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EPEL Office Hours

The EPEL Steering Committee is implementing monthly office hours for the EPEL project. These will be held on the first Wednesday of each month at 1700 UTC. The first session will be on 2022-03-02. The openSUSE Heroes team has agreed to let us host the meeting on their Jitsi Meet Instance. Please join us at https://meet.opensuse.org/epel with all your EPEL questions.

EPEL 9 is now available

On behalf of the EPEL Steering Committee, I’m pleased to announce the availability of EPEL 9. This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors. Package maintainers can now request dist-git branches, trigger Koji builds, and submit Bodhi updates for EPEL 9 packages.

Instructions to enable the EPEL repository are available in our documentation. If there is a Fedora package you would like to see added to EPEL 9, please let the relevant package maintainer know with a package request.

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CPE to staff EPEL work

We are pleased to announce that Red Hat is establishing a small team directly responsible for participating in EPEL activities. Their job isn’t to displace the EPEL community, but rather to support it full-time. We expect many beneficial effects, among those better EPEL readiness for a RHEL major release. The EPEL team will be part of the wider Community Platform Engineering group, or CPE for short.

As a reminder, CPE is the Red Hat team combining IT and release engineering from Fedora and CentOS.
Right now we are staffing up the team and expect to see us begin this work from October 2021. Keep an eye on the EPEL mailing list and the associated tracker as we begin this exciting journey with the EPEL community.

FPgM report: 2019-33

Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.

I have weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. (Just not this week because I will be traveling)

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