[Novalug] Fwd: [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue Jan 7 17:32:41 EST 2014


I am very confused as to the value.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:28 PM, David A. Cafaro <dac@cafaro.net> wrote:
> Yeah, have to say that was a little bit of a surprise to me.  Hopefully
> good things can come of this.
>
>
> On 01/07/2014 04:20 PM, Jeremy Hoel wrote:
>> This is an interesting development.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@centos.org>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:09 PM
>> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
>> To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce@centos.org>
>>
>>
>> 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@centos.org. Press requests should be sent to
>> press@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,
>>
>>
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