Hi Troy.

Nice summary !

> Scenario 1

This is believe could be used even from now on
(possibly to extend lifetime of 3 and 4 .. or provide
easy migration path to CentOS when we end support -
far quicker than they/RH will)

> 
> Scenario 2

Not very different from what we do now, right ?

> 
> Scenario 3
> Basically merge everything to CentOS, becoming a repository to it,
> similar to CentOS Plus.  We would basically maintain a repository at
> CentOS, an use their community infrastructure, making the Scientific
> utilities and such available at install time.

Yes. That is indeed what I was mostly thinking about for SL(X)5:
anaconda improvements should make it possible.

[ of course to that we could add few things:
 yummable ISOs of the repository, our part specific
 lists/forums - for AFS .. etc support ]

> This would eventually disband Scientific Linux as the support for SL3
> and SL4 end at their respective times.

Maybe not 'disband' but rather 'merge' into CentOS one:

I'm not sure what is your opinion about the community
around SL .. but I think that it is rather 'weak'
(in the sense of number of experts / contributors
available comparing to number of systems running SL(X)):

In this scenario all users would profit from much stronger
CentOS one.

From practical point of view that would be just
're-branding': We did this for SLC3 (which started
its life as CEL3 - CERN E...(nhanced ?) Linux ..)

Jarek

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