[distro-devroom] [Distros] Last-minute substitution; Pretalx 500 error

[benny Vasquez]

Adding another list from the manual, since I'm not sure which one would be
best here.


benny Vasquez

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On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM Justin W. Flory (he/him) <jwf at redhat.com>
wrote:

> For what it is worth, I will leave the session details here in case a staff
> member can help out with this. I get a 500 error each time I try to enter
> this into Pretalx.
>
> *Speaker email*: carlwgeorge at gmail.com
> *Time*: 13:00-13:30
> *Room*: H.1302
> *Track*: Distributions
> *Title*: The Road to EPEL 10
> *Abstract*:
> 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.
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM Justin W. Flory (he/him) <jwf at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello FOSDEM DevRoom organizers,
> >
> > Could someone help the Distro DevRoom make a last-minute substitution?
> Our
> > 13:00 speaker called out sick and we had a replacement speaker volunteer.
> > The volunteer did not previously have a Pretix session submitted. I tried
> > to create a new talk in the now-empty slot for the Distro DevRoom, but I
> > got a 500 error.
> >
> > Any help in debugging Pretalx at the last-minute would be super
> > appreciated!
> >
> > --
> > *Cheers*,
> > *Justin W. Flory* (*he/him*) || 📧 jwf at redhat.com || 🔗 jwf.io
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> >
>
>
> --
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