[WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

[Johnny Hughes]

> >On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:23, Mathieu LUBRANO wrote:
> >
> >> WB seems the most active RHEL clone, and the cleanest rebuild
> >> (compared to tao and centos), but what if beau.org or John give up
> ?
> >
> >I don't know about the organisational structure of the WB team, but
> I'm
> >sure if they give up, there will be someone waiting in the wings to
> take
> >over. Thats what happens with open source software right?
> 
> 
> Wrong, sorry: if no one knows about WB internals (tracking,
> rebuilding...), websites and projects, the only way to take over is
> creating your own forked distribution (lot of rework, quality issues,
> new hosting...), or abandon it. This is what I don't want.

There are several RHEL clones that are fairly interchangable ... they
include WBEL, CentOS and TaoLinux.  These are almost exactly the same.

There are others, like FermiLinux and Lineox, that are very similar.

You can convert between any of these distros very easily.

John Morris is basically the only maintainer for WBEL.  If John were to
decide tomorrow to stop doing WBEL, it would be very easy to take WBEL
and continue it.  Someone (or many people) would do that ... and even if
they didn't CentOS or TaoLinux would be easy to convert to.

You don't even need to convert ... just download the RHEL SRPM updates
and rebuild them yourself and continue adding updates to WBEL until RHEL
3 is unsupported ... in 4 years.


Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com