On 01/05/2011 04:57 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/5/2011 9:34 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> >> thus Les Mikesell spake: >>> On 1/5/2011 6:45 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>>> But lets do the right >>>> thing rather than just doing something. Going by the popularist current >>>> mood of people on this list, I think people just want early access to a >>>> codebase they can start using for their own use... >>> >>> I thought that was the very definition of an open process... >> >> What came to my mind on my way home from the office: Maybe Karanbir has >> a different definition of 'community' (wasn't that what the 'C' in >> 'CentOS' was for?) in mind...? > > I do understand the conflict, just pointing out the other side. The > goal for Centos isn't so much to build a 'better' distro by accumulating > fixes that make it better for particular purposes as it is to build as > nearly exact a copy of RHEL as legally permitted. But community > involvement happens because people need to fix something for their own use. no. if centos would be so simple rhel rebuild then centos-6 could be released 3 days after rhel-6. there are many different things that should have to be done. and currently everything depend on one single man. that's the main reason why it's takes many months. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"