[WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

Chris Hammond chris@tac.esi.net
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:15:30 -0400


Mathieu LUBRANO wrote:

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> >On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:23, Mathieu LUBRANO wrote:
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> >> 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 ?
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> >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?
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> 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.
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There is a very good document on the WB site titled


    "How I did it, or "HOWTO Roll your own"

Just go to the main page and click on howto.

Chris