The Road to EPEL 10

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a yum repository of community maintained packages for use on CentOS Stream and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For most of its history, each version of EPEL was made available after the corresponding major version of RHEL. This slowed down package availability, which then slowed down adoption of new RHEL major versions. In EPEL 9, package maintainers were able to build against CentOS Stream 9 early to have a large number of packages ready before the RHEL 9.0 launch. For EPEL 10, the EPEL Steering Committee is expanding that strategy to all minor versions of RHEL 10. This will improve support for CentOS Stream and for specific minor versions of RHEL, resolving several key pain points of users and maintainers. Attend this talk to learn more about this bold initiative and the results achieved so far.