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I do not know how many on the SL list have subscribed to the quite
different Slack list for Rocky EL. Appended below is a very recent
post. Note:
We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks:
• Management
• Web and branding
• Infrastructure
• Security and compliance
• Packaging
• Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure
• Installer development
Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone
who wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a
Google form which will allow us to to start organizing the team at large.
End excerpt.
Both Princeton EL (Springdale) and SL are supported by paid
professionals (as is Oracle EL -- unlike Princeton or Fermilab/CERN,
Oracle is highly a for-profit operation with the overall goal of
profiteering by whatever "legal" means possible -- evidently Oracle EL
is not a viable alternative because of what comes after deployment of
the "no-fee" version -- the HEP community does not seem to be adopting
Oracle EL). I see no real personnel selection criteria or other
personnel mechanisms in what I am reading about Rocky EL. Does anyone
have further insight into this? An unreliable "bug for bug" port
(distro) of RHEL 8 (and follow-on major releases) done by volunteers
(some of whom may be professionals, some of whom may not be) seems risky
for real production use.
Is the HEP community considering Rocky EL executables as supplied? Or
will the HEP community do internal evaluation and testing before
deployment, keeping a working distro separate from the vagaries of what
may (NOTE: *MAY*, not will) be an amateur volunteer distro?
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
gmk December 16th at 1:55 PM
@channel This last week has been a rollercoaster, starting with the bad
news from RedHat/CentOS about it no longer being a “community” or
“enterprise” operating system, to seeing a community grow from nothing
to something massive. Again, in just a week, here are some of the
notable accomplishments from this amazing team:• Literally thousands of
people wanting to help overnight. This is the most engaging and
motivated community I’ve seen ever over my more than 20 year career with
open source.
• The first week was very hard because there were more people asking to
help and be part of this initiative than we could organize. Literally at
some point, it took me about an hour to go from one side of my Slack
messages to another. But now, we’ve built a structure and groups to
properly direct the people who want to help to where they can start working.
We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks:
• Management
• Web and branding
• Infrastructure
• Security and compliance
• Packaging
• Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure
• Installer development
Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone
who wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a
Google form which will allow us to to start organizing the team at
large. Please add yourself to the form
here:https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLSfEXnqD1sNHz9cslkMNOk6krUtDdSCYbxL68TTsn7uGZnoSFQ_viewformThank&d=DwIDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=sIC8PmIk2u6UC4wZQWqQgQhB2Rcd7iL_Hwc759C6aXk&s=2BgornCkUTyk6kix31RAwLMVh0MGkFRoJ0wG-OkTPEg&e=
you everyone for your patience while we have been setting up the
organization itself, and I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
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