I saw that, it will be interesting to see what happens. In some ways I think it might be good for them to cut all ties now and start fresh. Now that the distro has been successful they know a bit more on what will work and what wont and starting over might make the project that much better. It would certainly be unfortunate, but a name is only a name, the developers and community are more important.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dino K <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.centos.org/ > > "July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC > > This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers > > It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are left > with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting to resolve > these problems: > > You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable. > > You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date > this has not appeared. > > You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is not > proper. > > You have, it seems, sole 'Founders' rights in the IRC channels with no > deputy ; this is not proper. > > When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you > individually, I get a telco intercept 'Lines are temporarily busy' for the > last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice picked up, and > I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir also reports calling > and leaving messages without your reply. > > Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the > project. > > Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away. > > Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange > for the required information to keep the project alive at the 'centos.org' > domain. > > Sincerely, > > Russ Herrold > Ralph Angenendt > Karanbir Singh > Jim Perrin > Donavan Nelson > Tim Verhoeven > Tru Huynh > Johnny Hughes" > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
