[WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

[Dan Geist]

I'm sure many of the people on this list "could" roll their own whitebox
clone. Of course, that doesn't imply that anyone really wants to commit
the time to re-doing an awful lot of quality work.

It's easy for people to say, "Hey, I don't like the way this is. I'm
going to complain, but not offer any real help." I don't want to do
that. Frankly, I'd love to see a core group of folks that can all be
responsible for package building, etc.

Since the issue isn't really in userland, I'd like to take it to the
whitebox-devel list. Perhaps when John arrives home, the community will
have developed a full-blown support system for the OS along with
automatic build processes and notifications :)

Dan

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 06:25, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > >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
> 
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