Hi Yasha, link seems to be broken. It points to a Google Docs document that’s unavailable.
> On 16 Dec 2020, at 20:27, Yasha Karant <ykar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I do not know how many on the SL list have subscribed to the quite different > Slack list for Rocky EL. Appended below is a very recent post. Note: > > We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks: > • Management > • Web and branding > • Infrastructure > • Security and compliance > • Packaging > • Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure > • Installer development > Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone who > wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a Google form > which will allow us to to start organizing the team at large. > > End excerpt. > > Both Princeton EL (Springdale) and SL are supported by paid professionals (as > is Oracle EL -- unlike Princeton or Fermilab/CERN, Oracle is highly a > for-profit operation with the overall goal of profiteering by whatever > "legal" means possible -- evidently Oracle EL is not a viable alternative > because of what comes after deployment of the "no-fee" version -- the HEP > community does not seem to be adopting Oracle EL). I see no real personnel > selection criteria or other personnel mechanisms in what I am reading about > Rocky EL. Does anyone have further insight into this? An unreliable "bug > for bug" port (distro) of RHEL 8 (and follow-on major releases) done by > volunteers (some of whom may be professionals, some of whom may not be) seems > risky for real production use. > > Is the HEP community considering Rocky EL executables as supplied? Or will > the HEP community do internal evaluation and testing before deployment, > keeping a working distro separate from the vagaries of what may (NOTE: > *MAY*, not will) be an amateur volunteer distro? > > Take care. Stay safe. > > Yasha Karant > > gmk December 16th at 1:55 PM > @channel This last week has been a rollercoaster, starting with the bad news > from RedHat/CentOS about it no longer being a “community” or “enterprise” > operating system, to seeing a community grow from nothing to something > massive. Again, in just a week, here are some of the notable accomplishments > from this amazing team:• Literally thousands of people wanting to help > overnight. This is the most engaging and motivated community I’ve seen ever > over my more than 20 year career with open source. > • The first week was very hard because there were more people asking to help > and be part of this initiative than we could organize. Literally at some > point, it took me about an hour to go from one side of my Slack messages to > another. But now, we’ve built a structure and groups to properly direct the > people who want to help to where they can start working. > We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks: > • Management > • Web and branding > • Infrastructure > • Security and compliance > • Packaging > • Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure > • Installer development > Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone who > wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a Google form > which will allow us to to start organizing the team at large. Please add > yourself to the form > here:https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLSfEXnqD1sNHz9cslkMNOk6krUtDdSCYbxL68TTsn7uGZnoSFQ_viewformThank&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=sIC8PmIk2u6UC4wZQWqQgQhB2Rcd7iL_Hwc759C6aXk&s=2BgornCkUTyk6kix31RAwLMVh0MGkFRoJ0wG-OkTPEg&e= > you everyone for your patience while we have been setting up the > organization itself, and I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
