Jan Iven wrote:
> On 02/11/07 18:31, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I'll be at the spring Hepix in St. Louis next week.  I'll be giving 
>> the usual 6 month S.L. status, as well as leading the usual S.L. 
>> question/answer/discussion forum.
>> Connie wasn't able to make it to this hepix.  I will be arriving 
>> sometime on tuesday, and then the S.L. stuff is on Friday morning.
> 
> Neither Jarek nor myself will be there. Perhaps you could gently 
> initiate a discussion on the expected SL4 lifetime?
> 

Very good idea.  A discussion to see what people are expecting, with the 
knowledge that the real date will be set at the Spring 2008 Hepix.

> We also still seem to be moving only slowly with respect to "scientific" 
> addon software - perhaps it would be worth to see whether the CentOS or 
> EPEL fare any better with this? (and perhaps ship with disabled YUM repo 
> entries for them)?
> 

That's a good idea as well.  Find out which repositories from CentOS people 
want in.
The one thing I worry about with EPEL is that I have heard that they often are 
not compatible with the CentOS, dag, and atrpms repositories.  I haven't 
confirmed this, just heard it once or twice.

Troy
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