On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:43 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:07 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:04 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 09:51 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Phil Schaffner wrote:
Yes - had looked at all those. I was referring to the EPEL-specific Wiki pages and epel-devel list, and specifically how to contribute to EPEL and suggest/request/help-with packages without being an Extras developer.
Ah, overlooked the "how to contribute... without being an Extras' developer". Short of actually maintaining packages (ie, signing cla and becoming an Extras contributor), you're limited mostly to participating on the epel lists, providing opinions, feedback (via ml or bugzilla).
-- Rex
Not that I am complaining ... but don't you think if all the CentOS Developers sign a cla and become Fedora Extras Developers that starts many questions?
I certainly don't think that the CORE CentOS developers can do that ... maybe I am wrong. I guess it depends on the cla.
what questions does it start?
-sv
Hey ... is CentOS a Red Hat project, you guys are also Fedora Devels?
(That is one major question, for example)
let me ask a silly question: How does it matter? Let's say centos was a red hat project. That red hat inc had decided they wanted a rebuild of rhel for people who could not/would not pay for rhel and they wanted to have it done by people outside of red hat. How would it change the facts of the matter that centos 1. exists 2. does a bang-up job making things work well, reliably and innovating in great ways outside of the core distro?
How would those things changed if Centos was blessed by Red Hat or if it was not?
I don't think it would. No more than gcc changes b/c red hat pays some people to work on it and does not pay other folks. Nor the kernel. Centos is a community project that operates in a space left open and unfilled by any company. It's been doing a great job at providing for people who would otherwise be left out in the cold and anyone who says otherwise is completely full of crap.
so who cares if someone thinks it is a red hat blessed project or not? People think all sorts of stupid things.
If, at the end of the day, it does a good job, is free and helps people why does it matter?
-sv