On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? >> I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping >> by at the -devel list. > > Thats a very good question, and something more people should be asking > : here is a terse reply : adopt a part of the distro, contribute tests > and take ownership of driving support for those components forward ( so, > wiki content, support in irc channels and support for users on those > components in the mailing lists ). Start with a package or two, then > move that forward. Start with whats already in the distro. > > Its easy to fixate on the idea of CentOS being the distro and the distro > alone - however, a very large part of what the users see value in is the > user base around CentOS - and focused, specialised help with those areas > would go a long way in 'helping' CentOS. But there's no problem with all of these things where people can help already. The wiki is working fine, the mailinglist is helping people, I never heard anyone complain about this. None of this is fixing where people want the project to improve. People want to help with where the problems are, which is fixing builds so a release can be more timely. Why are we avoiding this again and again ? -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]