[Centos] Maintainers and security updates

[William Warren]

where is the subscribe pge for the devel list or is that private?


Greg Kurtzer wrote:

> Are you curious how many people have access to the private key? If so, then
> just 4.
> 
> If you are interested in how many people contribute or help the project, then
> the number is much higher. For the re-spinning of Centos3 with the U3 updates,
> we are already looking at a shared model for this (ie: certain people 
> maintaining the updates, another group to maintain the ISO's, and someone else 
> to maintain the base OS and rebuild when necessary (ie. RHEL4), etc...).
> 
> Being part of the cAos Foundation also means that there are other people that
> will help with bugzilla, web site, mailing lists, server administration, and
> also bandwidth costs. We are trying to share as much of the load as possible 
> and leverage the resources that we have through donations and monatary
> contributions.
> 
> One of my goals when creating the initial caos project and which is now a goal
> of the Foundation itself, is that our projects utilize a significant amount of
> time, and being able to "share the load" through the community actually makes
> the amount that one person has to do quite less.
> 
> I am very appreciative to all of the people that have contributed to the cAos
> Foundation and its projects. Without the community helping, we would not be
> where we are today. With that said, we still need more help. If any of our
> projects interest you, then please volunteer your efforts or contribute to the
> foundation.
> 
> As far as the U3 release of Centos, there was some talk about it on the
> centos-devel mailing list, and they are coming. Please stand by for some
> announcements. ;)
> 
> 
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> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:43:57AM -0700, Michael Rock told me:
> 
>>Hi, can someone tell how many are behind maintaining
>>the site and converting security and regular RHEL
>>fixes for Centos-3? I see the last round of security
>>updates for RHEL were turned out in a day which is
>>impressive. 
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>>Trying to get an idea if Centos has alot of community
>>support and being maintained by more than one person.
>>I am not confident enough yet in building my own
>>updates.
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>>I am another RH 7.1/8.0 admin that labored over the
>>decision to go with Fedora Legacy 6 months for these
>>servers only to find mailings to stop without any
>>notice. Since it seemed awfully quiet for a time I
>>checked their website and found support suspended for
>>these version due to lack of community involvement.  
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>>So doing a little more investigating this time to see
>>if the community is really into the project before
>>settling down with a solution.
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>>thx
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