This affects us. Imagine that all the CentOS users show up to use
Scientific Linux. Imagine all their maintainers and developers show
up, too.
Keith
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(http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL):
Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free
'rebuild' of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone AWOL. In
an open letter* from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the
precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been
attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole
administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and
apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in contact
with them and gets things sorted out.
* Open Letter (http://www.centos.org/):
July 30, 2009 04:39 UTC
This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers
It is regrettable that we are forced to send this letter but we are
left with no other options. For some time now we have been attempting
to resolve these problems:
You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable.
You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this
date this has not appeared.
You hold sole control of the centos.org domain with no deputy; this is
not proper.
You have, it seems, sole 'Founders' rights in the IRC channels with no
deputy ; this is not proper.
When I (Russ) try to call the phone numbers for UK Linux, and for you
individually, I get a telco intercept 'Lines are temporarily busy' for
the last two weeks. Finally yesterday, a voicemail in your voice
picked up, and I left a message urgently requesting a reply. Karanbir
also reports calling and leaving messages without your reply.
Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the
project.
Clearly the project dies if all the developers walk away.
Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to
arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the
'centos.org' domain.
Sincerely,
Russ Herrold
Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh
Jim Perrin
Donavan Nelson
Tim Verhoeven
Tru Huynh
Johnny Hughes
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Sincerely,
Michael Lauzon
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