On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Jaroslaw Polok wrote:

> Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
>> Hi Jaroslaw,
>>     It seems like a good idea to me, for all the reasons you mention.
>> Has there been any discussion with the CentOS people?
>
> No, (as far as I know..) I would prefer that first we - SL
> developers/maintainers - have a common concept before eventually
> doing that ... (if possible ..)

A while ago Troy talked to the Centos people about using their errata.

>
>> How about in the
>> labs, is there worry about depending on an external, non-commercial entity?
>
> That I don't know: but currently labs are depending on
> few (4-5) people from other labs (also non-commercial
> entities ..): besides the current expertise would stay
> where it is right now: could just be used differently..

I would expect that we would join Centos and help them with the 
Centos release.  We will not be completely out of the building business.

When we need changes we will still have to make them.

>
> (and as long as RHEL publishes sources there is always a
> 'way out': CentOS has proven itself reliable in past years -
> shall it disappear one day .. we could manage that ...)

Same as it is now.

>
> .. and adding to my previous auments:
>
>   upgrade path from SL(X)4 to CentOS 5 would not be
>   any revolution, but rather smooth evolution for current
>   SL users ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Jarek
>
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