The end of the line for EPEL-5

The remaining users of RHEL 5 (and derivatives) will want to know that maintenanceof the EPEL-5 repository is coming to an end. "In the end,EPEL-5 went live sometime in April of 2007 and over the next 10 years grewto a repository of over 5000 source packages and 200,000 unique ipaddresses checking in per day at its peak of 240,000 in early 2013. Whileevery package built for EPEL is done with the RHEL packages, all of thesepackages have been useful for the various community rebuilds (CentOS,Scientific Linux, Amazon Linux) of RHEL. This meant that growth in thoseeco-systems brought more users into using EPEL and helping on packaging aslater RHEL releases came out. However as these newer releases and rebuildsgrew in usage, the number of EPEL-5 users has gradually fallen to around160,000 unique ip addresses per day. Also over that time, the number ofpackages supported by developers has fallen and the repository has shrunkin size to 2000 source packages."