On 9/10/19 8:01 PM, Lance Albertson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 3:12 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org > <mailto:johnny at centos.org>> wrote: > > On 9/10/19 4:51 PM, Akshay Kumar wrote: > > One more thing I'd like to add is that there are a lot of people > who can > > contribute more help and resources beyond just testing. So right > now is > > probably not a good time but after the release perhaps it make > sense to > > see if more people can contribute. I can't speak for anyone else but I > > definitely have some bandwidth and maintained an internal build for > > RHEL3 bootstrapped from src on RH9 and then 4. Then we moved to > CentOS. > > > > I have been building most of the CentOS releases for the the last 17 > years. I know how to do it .. it just takes time to get it right. > > But again, thanks for the offer. > > > Given the people bandwidth constraints and the limited amount of people > actually doing most of the work of the project (especially during > releases), I think it might be a good idea to consider how to bring on > other contributors who can help learn from you. It's rather scary > thinking that if you were to be hit by a bus (let's hope that never > happens!), a lot of that experience and knowledge would go away. I know > I have that same problem with my org and myself! > > Would it be possible to look into bringing on additional folks who can > help with releases after this one is done? It would also be great to > bring in some "new blood" so you could maybe retire someday :) That > could also help with the ability of having someone dedicated to the > current release and someone else who could help with an upcoming release. > > I appreciate all of the hard work you and others have been putting into > this and am looking forward to 8 when it's ready. For anyone who wants to volunteer for doing things to speed development of CentOS Linux 8 ... Please, Please read the announcement that is released. You will get a way to make that happen. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190920/7f131c9b/attachment-0008.sig>