[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

Tue Apr 12 14:31:15 UTC 2011
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:07 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 02:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> There are pages in the wiki that already describe what we are doing
>>> right now.
>>
>> Really? Where do I look to see what has been tried with packages that are
>> currently failing QA or not building yet?  Or even what are the current
>> time-consuming problems that haven't been solved yet?
>
> The process is not the product.
>
>>> The bug.centos.org site is open to anyone who might want to get involved
>>> and help fix bugs. I'm guessing you are just new to CentOS and dont
>>> really know what you are talking about. Try thinking things though for a
>>> change.
>>
>> Wouldn't thinking things through have to result in distributing the time
>> consuming work instead of making it wait for any single owner?
>
> Exactly, which is where the idea of 'ownership' comes through.
>

How are you going to vet the stuff? The QA team will be responsible for 
that? For all the talk of giving others the exact tools to replicate a 
Centos distro - just how is the stuff produced by a zillion would be 
contributors (assuming they don't take off to build their own crap 
distro) going to be vetted?