<div dir="ltr"><p>One of the major values of the EL rebuild ecosystem is the ability to
interoperate, or the ability to fork from the upstream. This provides
purpose in many ways, choice being the most heralded. Since the CentOS
community has teamed up with Red Hat to allow for Special Interest
Groups to join them, it seems that there might be a bit less of an
ecosystem available. The goal of the Interoperability SIG is to ensure
that the ability to fork and rebuild still exist.</p>
<p>Our communities already exist outside of the CentOS community purview. They are currently the GoOSe Project[1] and the Ascendos Project[2]. This shared community will serve as a "reference implementation", yet will
still be operated and marketed as a product and community separate from
CentOS. Consider it something of CentOS "embassy" of sorts.</p>
<p>It would seem that this SIG could be construed as contrary
to the goals of the CentOS project. However, we believe there is value
added to the CentOS project. We are interested in improving the CentOS
community in at least a few ways. </p><p>* Providing feedback and collaboration on common issues. Including,
but not limited to, reporting bugs, providing patches, discussing
packaging techniques, rebuilding variants, QA, ISO building, etc.</p><p>* Collaboration on documentation of the rebuild process, rebranding of documentation, providing new documentation, etc.</p><p>* Build or maintain tools to ease rebranding of upstream packages
as to ease adoption by companies who build upon and release software
based on CentOS.</p><p>* Providing tools to help monitor statuses of builds, repositories,
releases, etc. Whether they be part of the CentOS community or
otherwise.</p><p>With these goals in mind, we'd like to formally request an Interoperability
Special Interest Group within the CentOS community. Please let us know
how to further proceed.</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Clint Savage</p><p>Lead Developer, GoOSe project</p><p></p><p>1 - <a href="http://gooseproject.org">http://gooseproject.org</a> (#gooseproject on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>)</p>
<p>2 - <a href="http://ascendos.org">http://ascendos.org</a> (#ascendos on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>)<br></p></div>