On 10 August 2010 10:57, Fabian Arrotin <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Bartlett wrote: >> >> On 9 August 2010 16:59, Dag Wieers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> >>>> Any plans to move this out of testing? I have been running it since >>>> creation in production without hiccup. >>> >>> The kmod-drbd83 package is part of the ELRepo project, so I forwarded >>> this >>> discussion to the ELRepo mailinglist at >>> >>> http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo >>> >>> I do think we have to promote this to the stable repository. So you have >>> my >>> vote as well ;-) >> >> O.k. folks, a few questions: >> >> (1) When was the package first made publicly available by us (the >> ELRepo Project)? >> (2) Any advances on two satisfied users (JLC, DW)? >> (3) Has the package been tested to destruction on a sacrificial / test >> system? >> (4) Any quirks / oddities, etc, noticed? >> (5) Do we have a maintainer for that package, as distinct from the >> builder of the package? The maintainer will have to be a person who >> uses it daily / regularly and understands it. (That rules *me* out.) >> >> Alan. > > Hi All, > > Just curious : are there any reasons why it would have to compete with the > packages from CentOS Extras ? and what are the differences (if any) between > those two packages ? > > -- > -- > Fabian Arrotin
Let me clarify things and, at the same time, dispel a myth. The ELRepo Project was founded to provide support for users of (Red Hat's) Enterprise Linux operating systems and to augment the Upstream products in those areas which are currently lacking. As Red Hat's sources are also used by others to build derivatives (for example, Scientific Linux) or clones (for example, CentOS) of the Upstream Product (RHEL), the packages made available by the ELRepo Project for are also compatible with Scientific Linux or CentOS. The CentOS Project is "downstream" of both Red Hat and the ELRepo Project. The CentOS Project has been, and still is, given as much support as possible by my colleagues and I (up to the limit that the active CentOS Project Developers allow us to give). Packages created by the CentOS Project are, per se, for the users of its product, CentOS, and not for users of RHEL. There is no competition between the ELRepo Project and the CentOS Project, from where my colleagues and I stand. Are you, Fabian with your more intimate knowledge of the internal workings of the CentOS Project, telling me that the developers of the CentOS Project have decided that there should be a competition? If so, sorry, we decline to take part. I trust that clarifies the situation. Now to dispel the myth. Certain derogatory statements with regard to the ELRepo Project have been circulating ever since it was founded. The myth enhancers have tried to make a connection between those myths and certain CentOS Project Developers, so much so that yet another myth arose. The latter myth I find quite amusing and I reproduce it below, in pseudo C-code: (ajb !like cpd) || (cpd !like ajb) || ((ajb !like cpd) && (cpd !like ajb)) where ajb represents me and cpd represents a certain CentOS Project Developer. Alan. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
