Jason Aubrey wrote: > For making an image public, it would obviously be great if Amazon > would sponsor the image... You are missing the point, imho. I think the real issue, for me anyway, is that Amazon is actively discouraging what is essentially a community, in spite of the fact that they and many of their users rely on the community to get things done, both work and play. > However, if this isn't the case maybe centos.org could publish an > image identifier(s) on their website and then have it labeled 'public' > on the AWS console. Well, what is centos.org ? Why dont you go ahead and document the build process, and I can plumb that into the distro-build scripts. > Each image has a unique identifier used to instantiate it, so as long > as centos.org publishes approved ids then that would be a pretty good > work around in my opinion. workaround to what ? Amazon being hostile to open source projects ? - KB