Karanbir Singh wrote: > Over a period of time, we would like to see the CentOS list > become a > more user help and distro specific list, with generic > conversations > moving to the centos-tech list. > perhaps that is why "core" issues in CentOS like the kernel and samba are ignored by the developers? Examples :- http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/066143.html http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/066154.html Upsream is blamed/misunderstood for a lot of things but even their developers take time to answer questions on the nahant-list or fedora-list in their spare time. If the CentOS devs don't have time to answer key questions such as on the kernel but have time to consider fragmenting the mailing list who wins/loses? If the devs have the choice to ignore the core stuff there is also the option of ignoring the non-core stuff. Spike.