Fantastic news! CentOS and RHEL have been mutually beneficial projects for years. As a user of both, I am extremely happy to see the ties grow between the communities. digimer On 07/01/14 04:09 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red > Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining > forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards > team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation > beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies. > Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further > expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is > easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we > maintain the established base. > > We are also launching the new CentOS.org website ( > http://www.centos.org ). > > - ------------- > The new initiative is going to be overseen by the new CentOS Governing > Board. The initial Board comprises of the existing CentOS Core team > members : > > - - Ralph Angenent > - - Tru Hyunh > - - Johnny Hughes JR > - - Jim Perrin > - - Karanbir Singh > > and also sees new members: > - - Fabian Arrotin, who comes to the board nominated from the community > - - Carl Trieloff, Karsten Wade, and Mike McLean join us, nominated by > Red Hat. > > Please join me in welcoming the new members to the Board. > > The key operating points of the Board are going to be: Public, Open, > and Inclusive. You can find more information about the governance > model, the board, and the operating policies we are proposing at > http://www.centos.org/about/governance/ > > Furthermore, some of the existing CentOS Core members are moving to > take up roles at Red Hat, as a part of their sponsorship of the CentOS > Project, allowing these people to work on the Project as their primary > job function. This includes Johnny Hughes Jr, Jim Perrin, Fabian > Arrotin, and myself. We will be working with and operating out of the > Red Hat Open Source and Standards team in the CTO's Office. > > - ------------- > Some of the things that are not changing: > - - The CentOS Linux platform isn't changing. The process and methods > built up around the platform however are going to become more open, > more inclusive and transparent. > - - The sponsor driven content network that has been central to the > success of the CentOS efforts over the years stays intact. > - - The bugs, issues, and incident handling process stays as it has been > with more opportunities for community members to get involved at > various stages of the process. > - - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS firewall will also remain. > Members and contributors to the CentOS efforts are still isolated from > the RHEL Groups inside Red Hat, with the only interface being srpm / > source path tracking, no sooner than is considered released. In > summary: we retain an upstream. > > Feel free to reach out if you have specific concerns about how this > change impacts your CentOS story. URLs mentioned at the bottom of this > email should be a good starting point. > > - ------------- > Some of the key things that are changing: > - - Some of us now work for Red Hat, but not RHEL. This should not have > any impact to our ability to do what we have done in the past, it > should facilitate a more rapid pace of development and evolution for > our work on the community platform. > > - - Red Hat is offering to sponsor some of the buildsystem and initial > content delivery resources - how we are able to consume these and when > we are able to make use of this is to be decided. > > - - Sources that we consume, in the platform, in the addons, or the > parallel stacks such as Xen4CentOS will become easier to consume with > a git.centos.org being setup, with the scripts and rpm metadata needed > to create binaries being published there. The Board also aims to put > together a plan to allow groups to come together within the CentOS > ecosystem as a Special Interest Group (SIG) and build CentOS Variants > on our resources, as officially endorsed. You can read about the > proposal at http://www.centos.org/variants/ > > - - Because we are now able to work with the Red Hat legal teams, some > of the contraints that resulted in efforts like CentOS-QA being behind > closed doors, now go away and we hope to have the entire build, test, > and delivery chain open to anyone who wishes to come and join the effort. > > The changes we make are going to be community inclusive, and promoted, > proposed, formalised, and actioned in an open community centric manner > on the centos-devel mailing list. And I highly encourage everyone to > come along and participate. > > - ------------- > Contacting us works best via the established community mechanisms. > - - Real time chats via IRC ( http://wiki.centos.org/irc ) ; To keep > conversation sanity intact, I recommend using the #centos-devel > channel to discuss project related activity while #centos is best used > for end user conversations. > > - - The Mailing lists are a great way to interface with the developers, > contributors and the community at large ( http://lists.centos.org ). > As with IRC, we recommend using the centos-devel list to talk about > project related issues while the general centos list is best used for > end user conversations. > > - - The CentOS Forums are another great way to engage in conversation > with other users ( http://www.centos.org/forums ), if you prefer that > mechanism. > > All the above mentioned venues are public and open to the community, > should you wish to discuss something privately, you can email us at > centosdev at centos.org. Press requests should be sent to > press at centos.org. Please note that it will take us much longer to > reply to private requests as compared to content on the public venues. > > - ------------- > In the coming days we are going to create opportunities for people to > come and get involved in more face to face interactions. Starting with > a regular scheduled office-hours format hangouts ( > http://wiki.centos.org/OfficeHours ) that start early next week. We > are trying to split the sessions into two different timezones so as to > maximise the number of people who are able to join. The sessions will > run live, with #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net being used for > conversations alongside. > > We are also running a CentOS Dojo on the 31st Jan 2014 at Belgium ( > http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2014 ); The event will run > two tracks, with lots of opportunities for social interaction between > the talks; followed by CentOS in the Clouds Hack sessions. We are > limited in the number of people we can accomodate, so I encourage > everyone to register early. > > - ------------- > I want to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors, the > contributors and the CentOS team members for all their help over the > years, the project is built completely upon those contributions - and > I look forward to seeing even more involvement from everyone as we > move forward. > > - ------------- > A Request: > > We are still sorting out content in various places and it might take a > day or two to get everything in place. In the mean time if you find > something stale and perhaps misleading in the new context ( or the old > one! ) please drop in on #centos-devel at irc.centos.org and let us know. > > - ------------- > Some URLS: > - - http://www.centos.org/ The CentOS Project > - - http://wiki.centos.org/ CentOS Community wiki > - - http://community.redhat.com/ RedHat OSAS > - - > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces > - - Red Hat Press Release > - - http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq - Red Hat FAQ's about the > initiative > - - http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ - CentOS FAQ's about the initiative > > > Enjoy! and regards, > > Karanbir Singh and everyone from the CentOS team, > > > - -- > Karanbir Singh, Project Chair, The CentOS Project > +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS > GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlLMbQcACgkQMA29nj4Tz1sTnQCgj2fYxYpTjA0KwH7TpCWjE4gg > w2cAniQWb/nh6Zn/8daSQ3EAfLIzGNKg > =KJOk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-announce mailing list > CentOS-announce at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce > -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?