Re: End of life..? [was: [OT] Where's Charlie?]

Gordon,

Thanks for your efforts and coorporation.
Good luck with yur new job(s)

Just wondering though....

Since Redhat gave up on the RedHat distro (freely available version) 
it's clear that Mitel can no longer follow the path of RH releases.

You suggest that the Fedora is a good place to start. Also the 'core' 
maintainers of the 'old' e-smith distro are moving on to other projects.

It sounds a bit if version 6.0Beta3 is the last 'official' donation of 
Mitel to the community, and that Mitel has it's focus on something 
different (e.g. VOIP and hardware etc ;-) ).

But just to get it clear for everybody....

Here we are, Mitel SME server is as is now (Version 6.0Beta3), and the 
community itself has to create themselves a new 'roadpath' without the 
donations we used to have before from Mitel. e.g. 'End of life' for the 
unsupported version.

Is this the correct situation? (like the SME server is getting caught up 
in the waves made by the recent policy changes of the major distro's, 
RH-> Fedora/Enterprise, SUSE-> Novell, Ximian->Novell)

Anyway, thanks again for you all efforts, help and donations.
(never did get a clear picture of the 'core Mitel dev team ;-) )

Regards,
Hsing-Foo

Gordon Rowell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:48:59PM -0600, John Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>[...]
>>Sorry to hear that.  Does that mean I need to find a new distro?
> 
> 
> The SME Server is what this community makes it. There are plenty of
> capable people on this list, both inside and outside Mitel. A release
> based on Fedora core looks to be a good starting place - who's willing
> to take up the challenge?
> 
> For those who have been wondering, I have also moved on to work on other
> Linux-related developments within Mitel. Charlie and I have spent over
> three years on this, and it's time for something new.
> 
> Gordon
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