[WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

[Vicki Reeves]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Johnny, thanks for doing a great job of explaining the options if John 
and the library drop out of the WBEL project.  The major great thing 
about open source is that the code is OPEN - it's right there in the 
open for anyone to branch off with another project.

The Beauregard Parish Library has been 'in buisiness' since 1947.  We 
are a public institution and WBEL is vital to our operations.

My personal prayer is that we can keep John happy right here until 
retirement.  If that does not happen, we hope that we can continue to 
work with him on WBEL where ever he goes.  But if he decides to drop 
WBEL, chances are good that whoever takes on the GIGANTIC task of 
filling his spot here at the library will be expected to keep the WBEL 
project going.

As far as John's vacations go, he has left good instructions for me to 
rebuild under most situations.  I've actually done one rebuild under 
John's supervision.  I'm in training for the other situations.  Our plan 
on this vacation is for him to rebuild if he was at a spot where that 
was possible - as you may have noticed, John likes to burp his own baby. 
  At this stage of the project, I agree that it is a good thing. 
However, if it is an essential (read security risk) rebuild and John 
cannot get to the resources to handle it, our plan is for me to do it.

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