On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:40 AM, R P Herrold<herrold at centos.org> wrote: > Some people are perhaps offended that the less public CentOS > infrastructure levels do not invite them in -- I cannot help > their wounded feelings. Indeed, in part it may be that some > talented people drift away or withdraw for such a reason. > While I regret the loss of their enthusiasm, there is an art > to 'keeping the lights on' at a major distribution Russ, During my 'relatively short' history with CentOS, I have seen a number of talented people giving up on helping in the CentOS community. This is sad and I was hoping the "core" CentOS admins would make an effort to prevent this kind of loss from happening. I still believe they do and the above statement is strictly your personal view (as you rightly said). Akemi