-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/16 13:34, Phelps, Matthew wrote:> Unfortunately, I have neither the time, nor expertise to partake in > such a project.is there someone else on here who can help ? I think if we can demonstrate some traction, it would go a long way in both the upstream engagement and the conversation with Red Hat - since we can then demonstrate a communal win.> Since Mr. Hughes had already gotten earlier versions of chromium > to build under CentOS 6 (c.f. > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/), and he indicated it > was merely a matter of getting RHEL to give permission for him to > redistribute it more "formally" to the community, I was hoping > progress had been made with that.Johnny, can you perhaps quantify the effort a bit ? And if you need help what sort of help you might need for this ? I suspect a large part of that is just going to be time in day.> Have you, as the CentOS project lead ever asked RedHat if they can > make their version of Chromium for CentOS 6 available for us? If > not, can you please?I havent, but am more than willing to take the question up. regards, - -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, 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 v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXFNjCAAoJEI3Oi2Mx7xbtUMEH/2Mfo+5+hx4cfD9FvVg6nHQQ m+tbd1Ku/ytstZNhNJpHx95HoeJVfdC71y+6SylLWxxJ+1ridbaZ5t7dC1qEL5Rt hJEG1rIhJNTs4W1eIO4XeEQVzwOjzcsLwtNlTWypd6PVp8RVJqjOFk6ohN/gK3VW hLIoli+hwOdUxY81cbSqVJ+DJjvmBUupiZJqFlsRsutFd/LUL0MsOuexhqTeawIu G6qT/xudeq/eBU4TqPvnpO5NgKHjePTQEuDYmnmjG1F5xrw38HYeg6i3a8Fmv5wc NKuXZy4S8D96EBfm/R9g/RBm7umojXwz7MLkRHd3bq+GLHpa10Onb883XOxDqrU=UErC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18/04/16 13:34, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > > Unfortunately, I have neither the time, nor expertise to partake in > > such a project. > > is there someone else on here who can help ? I think if we can > demonstrate some traction, it would go a long way in both the upstream > engagement and the conversation with Red Hat - since we can then > demonstrate a communal win. > > > Since Mr. Hughes had already gotten earlier versions of chromium > > to build under CentOS 6 (c.f. > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/chromium/6/), and he indicated it > > was merely a matter of getting RHEL to give permission for him to > > redistribute it more "formally" to the community, I was hoping > > progress had been made with that. > > Johnny, can you perhaps quantify the effort a bit ? And if you need > help what sort of help you might need for this ? I suspect a large > part of that is just going to be time in day. > > > Have you, as the CentOS project lead ever asked RedHat if they can > > make their version of Chromium for CentOS 6 available for us? If > > not, can you please? > > I havent, but am more than willing to take the question up. > > regards, > > - -- > Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS ProjectThanks. I imagine (hope?) there shouldn't be too much effort to get this to work, since it's already been done upstream. RedHat continues to push out updates even. E.g. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/16 14:15, Phelps, Matthew wrote:> Thanks. I imagine (hope?) there shouldn't be too much effort to get > this to work, since it's already been done upstream. RedHat > continues to push out updates even. E.g. > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html >that looks like Supplementary content - we've never had that before. what we might need to do here is work the upstream beyond Red Hat where this works done, that makes it Supplementary content and not completely open source. Do we atleast know at this point what that might be ? regards - -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, 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 v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXFOdwAAoJEI3Oi2Mx7xbtbnEH/01QLHrK59zUEiOuBCpDIXtX 1R6NwHp+9wDait8fx1nCydtZN+FSaXLeiOZC1JG+cT8ItOOj5c5iD6pIxp2FJkg1 psBl/Ym6MMJkhTH3ZlRdy6+jsJANy04lfQz4mdkcYqMI6x9++pfoCHLEajatZlPm Aq9CbUtvxvb8Vu3vnhdYbS5JvqTN2InIoGh62BJRuPVApMMkQgS1eQOfBnBk34dT 4zJT2t9afMHlr29s5gqWa8jh/LAx7BuNJu64m6k4wraku9sIqb4WlGDCK9Chq3zQ 5zbEHviYRF6N+DEfjsqEN+xxbrvanjEG140TXxmnplNdbLORFL7KsJg4P/U49js=hGM4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----