It is also linked now here: https://wiki.rockylinux.org/contributing
Dave On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 06:55:15PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > I "subscribed" to the Slack Rocky EL "list" after the information on how-to > subscribe was posted. It is possible that the public link in the URL bar of > Firefox is not the "real" URL. I did provide a full quote of the relevant > posting to the Rocky EL list; one needs the URL to verify that I had not > mis-quoted. The question I raised still needs to be addressed: will Rocky > EL be done by paid professionals (as with SL or Springdale Princeton EL) or > will it be done by volunteers, some (many) of whom are "amateurs"? I am > very concerned about the use in a production professional environment of an > "amateur" port of RHEL. I am not interested in "cradle-to-grave" outsourced > support, as under a RH or Oracle support contract, but access to the > necessary information from a "professional" list such as this SL list, and a > compensated professional staff behind the distro (as observed many times on > this SL list). > > On 12/16/20 6:17 PM, Vinícius Ferrão wrote: > > 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://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEXnqD1sNHz9cslkMNOk6krUtDdSCYbxL68TTsn7uGZnoSFQ/viewformThank > > > you everyone for your patience while we have been setting up the > > > organization itself, and I???m looking forward to hearing from you. > >