Steve Meyers wrote:
On 2/20/11 12:03 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
  
I know i've already said that in that thread (but a lot of people have
'echoed' their own answers too, right ?:-)  ) but i've had personally
the case where people were asking to 'help the project' and when they
were pointed to either improving the website, translate the wiki,
chasing after potential banding issues, etc, etc .. the only answer i've
got*multiple*  times was "no, i'm not interested in doing that : i just
want to rebuild packages" .. so each time it proved me that such people
aren't interested in helping the project as a whole, but instead just
want to focus on build issues. I'm really wondering (and still*my*
opinion) if those people are interested in CentOS as a project, or just
want to 'suck' some build scripts (which are just wrappers around
mock/plague as stated so much times in that thread) to produce their own
respins.
    

Does rebuilding packages not count as helping the project?  If the 
release speed is seen as the biggest problem with the project, why do 
you assume ulterior motives for people who want to help out with the effort?

For goodness sake, it's an open source project.  Who cares if the 
occasional person wants to produce their own respin.
  

RH would!! Apparently!! If that occasional person develops to a more than "occasional".

I still stand behind my evaluation of the situation done here
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29676&forum=14
Apparently the people behind CentOS are so intricately professionally related to RH that
CentOS exists because RH wants it to exist.
Working in the background RH reserves its options for the future.
As a corporation it evaluates the developing business environment
(ex. Oracle buying Sun, killing OpenSolaris etc etc) and and takes appropriate action.
Including making life harder for other corporations to compete. All these is perfectly
understandable. It may, though, mean that CentOS dies quite likely a similar death
to OpenSolaris. 

Andreas Kasenides