On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:13:20AM -0700, Troy Engel told me: > I've thought about this -- why doesn't CentOS and WBEL merge? It sure > seems like they do exactly the same thing. I'm sure people have thought > about it, is there already a thread archived on this somewhere you know > about? Here is an order of events as I recall...: - decided on making a new linux distro called caos - build infrastructure and community to implement plans - talked with rhel-rebuild people about making a 'product' - publicly released plans for another distro called caos-el (centos) - built infrastructure and general policies - we were about 2/3rds of the way through when WBEL was announced - I sent email to JohnM about working together, and had no response - we continued on our path because several of us could not reach JohnM - DavidP contacted us to tell us that Tao Linux was releasing - We worked with David and offered resources (now we share a bugzilla) - Centos was released More partnerships with WBEL were abandoned because JohnM seemed hard to communicate with. Also, (I know this sounds bad, and I apologize in advance for it) but he is 1 hacker. We already had a handful of good hackers that were teaming up on this project. It did not make sense for us to stop working or pursue further partnerships with the WBEL project. While I _really_ hate to have redundant efforts in the community, sometimes it is unavoidable. :( -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/