syn_lwnheadline: The end of the line for EPEL-5

The end of the line for EPEL-5
The remaining users of RHEL 5 (and derivatives) will want to know that maintenance
of 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 grew
to a repository of over 5000 source packages and 200,000 unique ip
addresses checking in per day at its peak of 240,000 in early 2013. While
every package built for EPEL is done with the RHEL packages, all of these
packages have been useful for the various community rebuilds (CentOS,
Scientific Linux, Amazon Linux) of RHEL. This meant that growth in those
eco-systems brought more users into using EPEL and helping on packaging as
later RHEL releases came out. However as these newer releases and rebuilds
grew in usage, the number of EPEL-5 users has gradually fallen to around
160,000 unique ip addresses per day. Also over that time, the number of
packages supported by developers has fallen and the repository has shrunk
in size to 2000 source packages."