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 __ ------------------------------------------------------- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___________________ CERN - IT/FIO/LA _ _ http://home.cern.ch/~jpolok ___ tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ _____________________________________ +41_78_792_0795 _