Simple Change Management Tracking

Mon Oct 26 17:40:57 UTC 2009

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Phil Regnauld <regnauld at nsrc.org> wrote:
> Dan Young (dyoung) writes:
>> If you want Fedora-ish packages built for RHEL/CentOS, getting them
>> from EPEL is a better choice:
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/rt3.html
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/rt3.html
>
>        Yes, EPEL is ok, but they're out of date.

If there's not a security issue, that's a feature, not a bug. The OP's
complaint seems to be that the upgrade treadmill breaks things.

>> Oh, and my recommendation for something simpler would be:
>> http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/roundup.html
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/roundup.html
>
>        That's another possibility -- but the original request (to stay somewhat
>        on topic) is to implement a Change Management Tracking, possibly with
>        Approval.
>
>        This is possible in RT using Scrips and custom keywords:
>        http://wiki.bestpractical.com/view/ApprovalCreation
>
>        Would roundup allow this ?

Roundup has role-based permissions, including "signoff" by a manager role:
http://roundup.sourceforge.net/doc-1.0/design.html#use-cases

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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