13 Dec
2020
13 Dec
'20
8:05 p.m.
Am 13.12.2020 um 20:44 schrieb Simon Avery digdilem@gmail.com:
And there's *a lot* more than five of us.
Here is number six.
Just one of those groups energised from this decision is Rocky Linux. There are 4,606 people on their Slack right now, which did not even exist a week ago.
IIRC, one of the reasons cited that CentOS „merged“ with RedHat back then was that a lot of people were using CentOS, but there wasn’t enough money generated to pay the developers.
A lot of them were basically working for free.
That is never sustainable. At least not for a long time.
It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a day on it.