[LUNI] CentOS maintainer goes AWOL

[r_a_smith3530 at sbcglobal.net]

Boy, that sounded good, it didn't say much, but it sure sounded reassuring! ;-)

I know Seva, you're just the messenger. No harm, no foul.

Actually, as long as Mark Shuttleworth doesn't go AWOL, I'm not too terribly concerned.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Rob Smith
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-----Original Message-----
From: Seva Epsteyn <seva at glivorem.com>

Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:40:17 
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion<luni at luni.org>
Subject: Re: [LUNI] CentOS maintainer goes AWOL


"The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance
Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were
resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with
deadlines for remaining unresolved issues."

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 16:14, Jamesha Fisher<jamfish728 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No...but it's not like they can Check Brazil.
>
> --
> Jamesha "JamFish" Fisher
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Mike Scott <luni at pyewacket.org> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone checked to see if he is hiking the Appalachian trail?
>> ;-)
>>
>> - Mike Scott
>>
>>   -------- Original Message --------
>>  Subject: Re: [LUNI] CentOS maintainer goes AWOL
>>  From: Connie Sieh <csieh at fnal.gov>
>>  Date: Thu, July 30, 2009 3:00 pm
>>  To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion"
>>  <luni at luni.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Timothy J. Wielgos wrote:
>>
>>  > I sent this from the wrong account earlier... oops....
>>  >
>>  > You all seen this?
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL
>>  >
>>  > It
>>  > seems that the lead maintainer of CentOS has taken off, and all the
>>  > money and resources are still in his posession, unobtainable by the
>>  > rest of the group.
>>  >
>>  > Kind of puts me in a bad position, because I
>>  > (among others) convinced my boss to throw CentOS on a lot of machines
>>  > that we don't really need RHEL style support for.
>>  >
>>  > So I was looking in to Scientific Linux,
>>  > which seems to be Fermilab/CERN/etc's re-rolling of CentOS. Any of
>> you
>>
>>  Scientific Linux is not a re-roll of Centos. It is a independent
>> rebuild.
>>  The reason is that in 1998 Fermi Lab needed a Linux to run on it's
>>  computing clusters. RedHat was selected at the time. It was free then.
>>  Fermi took the free RedHat and added/changed a few things and created
>>  Fermi Linux. Cern did basically the same thing. Then RedHat went the
>>  subscription route. Fermi decided to rebuild the new RHEL into Fermi
>>  Linux which morphed into Scientific Linux when CERN and others joined
>> in.
>>  All of these events happened before Centos was released.
>>
>>
>>  > Fermilab guys out there know what the differences are between CentOS
>> > and Scientific?
>>  >
>>
>>  Centos does not add anything to the base release. They have additions
>> but
>>  they are in other repositories. They come out of the box very RHEL
>>  compatible. Centos has a strong wiki.
>>
>>  Scientific Linux makes some changes. We may fix a rpm that is very
>>  broken. We may add a few packages that are useful to our scientific
>>  audience. Each of our releases has a SL.releasenote that describes what
>>
>>  we have changed.
>>
>>  ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5x/i386/SL.releasenote
>>
>>  This is the release note for the current SL 5 release.
>>
>>  I have to say that I think Centos will continue but with a different
>> url.
>>
>>  > Thanks, > Tim
>>  >
>>
>>  Connie Sieh
>>  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
>>  Scientific Linux Co Lead Developer
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