On Sat, 28 May 2005, Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@ieee.org wrote:
But in the end, this is the reality that some people don't wake up to. They've got 3 choices:
- Get involved with Fedora Core, which affects RHEL
- Get involved with CentOS, which affects add-ons for their rebuild
- Complaint, and nothing will change at all ;->
Bryan - Please don't overstate this and make a problem where none exists. There is an infinity of choices of which you list three.
Another couple of major paths exist; Several former 'testers-list' folks offer ways; Joe Vos and Xos, David Parsley and Tao; my 'Wings' efforts on non-Centos arch's (Sparc, Mips/Netwinder, Alpha, PPC), PLD, Alt, and the list of RPM based full scope distributions goes on.
Nor does one _have_ to 'get involved' with either the RH-Fedora or Centos project to do effective distribution building, or add-on packaging. There are independent packagers who have packaged for years and years outside of RH's Fedora and its required representations and paperwork to be a committer, outside of Centos. Tummy, Matthias (pre-his move to RH Fedora Extras), Dag, again my longstanding archive. RPMForge offers a home.
- Russ Herrold