Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
This affects us. Imagine that all the CentOS users show up to use
Scientific Linux. Imagine all their maintainers and developers show
up, too.
I personally don't think that's a bad thing especially if it allows SL to have
the ability to open more of it's infrastructure to 3rd party "extensions" like
the CentOS team have done for CentOS Plus etc.
You are assuming that it is only the lack of developers that prevents SL
from having more "extensions" and newer versions.
I rather see it as the desire of the maintainers to stay in sync and
compatible with The Upstream Distribution. And that is a policy I support.
Some authors in this thread said something about 'competion' and
'getting more users for SL'. I do not think at all that CentOS is a
competitor, and I see no fight over clients.
The purpose of SL is to provide an enterprise quality distribution, with
a well defined community in mind. The aim of SL is not to take over the
world.
For example, EL5 is stuck in the php 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.45 days and when you
want applications which relay on at least php 5.2.x (and so many do) then you
have to go to 3rd party repo's which may be incompatible with other repo's
used in the environment.
It's really like opening a can of worms
Exactly. Better keep it close.
and IMHO CentOS got the right mix by
having their own team of developers providing those packages which TUV doesn't.
Long live CentOS. I wish they find a satisfactory solution for the
issue, and keep providing CentOS, and satisfy all the clients for which
SL is not new enough.
Matthias
In case there's a question, I use SL exclusively for over 30 Linux servers,
never used CentOS.
Regards,
Michael.
Keith
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(http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-
Administrator-Goes-AWOL):
Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular
free 'rebuild' of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone
AWOL. In an open letter* from his fellow CentOS developers, they
describe the precarious situation the project has been put in. There
have been attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the
sole administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and
apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in
contact with them and gets things sorted out.
* Open Letter (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
--
Sincerely,
Michael Lauzon
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