On 03/10/2011 04:53 PM, Zenon Panoussis wrote: > On 03/10/2011 11:04 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> The complexity of this stuff is beyond what you are able to parse. > Could you please elaborate? > > I don't mean here in reply to this posting. I mean it long-term, in the > bug tracker and also in a publicly accessible git repo of patches and > quirks. As things are now, the dev team has a huge amount of knowledge > on how CentOS is made, but very little of it trickles outside the core > team. > > So, what I'm saying essentially is this: would you care to make the > de-branding and building process fully open, so that others can copy it, > learn from it, improve upon it, and also contribute back? Would you care > to share your scripts and other wheels, so others won't have to re-invent > them? > > Mind you, I'm not asking you to start writing documentation or do anything > that would take away resources from actually producing CentOS. What I'm > asking is just that you open up the work you're doing anyway, no extra > cost involved. Johnny Hughes has already provided the info and the scripts . See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-February/006735.html and later messages