Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online I am worried. And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now. If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. I ponder the worries I think we are all faced with here. I think all of us would follow a fork... Whatever they end up calling it. But I am worried about the immediate future for the project. None of those guys deserve what is happening to them and all of us are affected. If anyone lives near Lance, perhaps a good call to the local news station and some you tube stuff may get him to release the project to the team who wants to continue. But an option to go full redhat is one I am now considering.. Discuss?
Don't panic. I am sure the situation is less worrisome than you are making it. So much that, according to the letter and other e-mails, the guy disappeared about a year ago, and for this whole time the project went on, many new versions were released, updates kept showing up as usual. As I see, the main issue here is on the domain name, if the guy does not show up and cooperate, the project might have to see the registrar on how to transfer it to another person, or in a last case change the domain to centos.net or centos.com or something like that... The would not be desirable as it would break yum config, etc., but it's far from the end of the world. I really can't see how this issue could bring an end to the project. HTH, Filipe
Bob Hoffman wrote:> Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. >You seem to be reading something (into, maybe?) completely different to me then?> They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now. >CentOS will continue - that's what open source projects do.> > If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the > conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall. >Yes, it's simple enough to convert to Red Hat, and I'm sure they will be more than please to accept your business for subscriptions.> I ponder the worries I think we are all faced with here. I think all of us > would follow a fork... > Whatever they end up calling it. > > But I am worried about the immediate future for the project. None of those > guys deserve what is happening to them and all of us are affected. > > If anyone lives near Lance, perhaps a good call to the local news station > and some you tube stuff may get him to release the project to the team who > wants to continue. > > But an option to go full redhat is one I am now considering.. > > Discuss? >
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Bob Hoffman wrote:> Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > > They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now. > > > If centos falls I have no choice but to go to redhat. I am wondering if the > conversion will be easy or a complete reinstall.There are other RHEL rebuild projects out there.> > I ponder the worries I think we are all faced with here. I think all of us > would follow a fork... > Whatever they end up calling it. > > But I am worried about the immediate future for the project. None of those > guys deserve what is happening to them and all of us are affected. > > If anyone lives near Lance, perhaps a good call to the local news station > and some you tube stuff may get him to release the project to the team who > wants to continue. > > But an option to go full redhat is one I am now considering.. > > Discuss? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-Connie Sieh
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Bob Hoffman<bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote:> Hate to ask, but after reading the last few months of centos history online > I am worried. > And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and left all > the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary. > > They all worked so hard and who knows what will happen now.I guess we wait and see what happens. But it looks like CentOS will go on -- it's just the domain name 'centos.org' that is in danger. I know 'centos.com' is already in use, but it looks like 'centos.net' is "parked" -- so probably available at a cost. I've sensed a tenseness at CentOS.org, but had no idea what was going on. In a lot of ways it's good to have this out in the open. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
"Bob Hoffman" <bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote:> And to learn the lead guy seems to have absconded with the cash and > left all the hard working devs high and dry..well that is scary.PANIC!!!! No he hasn't left them all high and dry. By the sound of it, none of the devs have *ever* seen any cash. They're all paying for this out of their own pockets. Worst case scenario, the Centos project has lost everything currently donated, and has to set up a new domain name and new paypal account. That doesn't change anything for the average bum like you and me. The devs will keep doing their work and in fact, things may improve, because once things are sorted under someone else's control (or a committee), then there will probably be some money available to them for travel to shows, or whatever. From my point of view, I've never even heard of Lance, so the people doing the work will continue doing the work. So sit down, stop conjuring up disaster scenarios that the world will end, down a few shots of your favourite whiskey or bourbon, and have a nap. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090731/8dd4c6cc/attachment-0002.sig>