Re: [WBEL-users] About WB maintainers

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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