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CentOS Administrator Reappears

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29 pointsmariana18 comments

I already panicked and started the move of one of our servers over to Ubuntu Hardy.

I'm worried for CentOS, continuing this saga with an open letter and a picture of a possibly stubborn leader is going to hurt. I think it's time to go tight lipped, have a conference call, hash it out and make things right.

Then make an announcement about all the GREAT things that came out of the call and how CentOS is on the verge of greatness with its new found community guidelines.

But programmers are not PR or Marketing guys usually, we're quite sensitive about our work, so I'm leery this will just turn into a public mud slinging battle.

You panicked and started a migration because you didn't have the patience to wait a few days to see what happens?

Really? You really migrated servers over to another distro within a few days of hearing the the project manager had gone AWOL?

You do realise that you can stick with the same distro forever and just patch all of your packages manually, don't you?

A few hours actually. It was just 1 server. I'm sorry if it looked like I said more. I do patch manually already.

If there are two ships going out to sea, and the ship where I've already loaded my luggage all of a sudden has crew members running around screaming "where's the captain, where's the captain, he's been gone for months." You know.... I'm just going to take my bags and put them on the other ship and not worry about it anymore. I don't need any more stress in my life, there's already PLENTY of that.

Where are the details!?! I want to know why he went AWOL for so long, and what kind of agreements were reached regarding the centos funds and domain. =P

I'd like to know why he went missing for so long as well, but it's hardly our business now is it? ;)

this isn't a soap opera. It's their business, even if they decided to make part of the thing public.

And my business is my business. We used to use CentOS and now we switched to another open build of RHEL.

I have nothing against them, they all seem to be great guys, I would have a beer with them. But the image of the project as a whole has suffered, and because of a lack of perceived stability and reliability we decided to switch.

If you don't mind sharing, what did you switch to?

Scientific Linux (http://www.scientificlinux.org/), it's maintained by Fermilab and CERN.

that's the risk you take for using a community (ish) / volunteer developed OS.

I always recommend Fedora - because they have Red Hat upstream so it's enterprisey but still the same sort of community :)

I hear you. I would rather choose Ubuntu, but we have to be compatible with RHEL since we have to ship our product on it. We need all the dev boxes running something binary and library-level compatible with it, and then it is easier to have all our servers on same architecture as well.

Red Hat is actually downstream from Fedora. Red Hat takes a Fedora release once every two years and makes it into a RHEL.

yeh sorry I realised this after posting. thanks for the correction (I think my point still stands, I dont know).

question. does the CentOS admin make any money?

This post tells a bit about it.

Basically that all the donation and ad revenue are unaccounted for. I certainly wont donate a cent (pun highly intended) until this is cleared up.

http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-priv...

Wow. That should have come out a long time ago. A good time for all open source projects out there to become accountable about their donations. And to stop donating to those that are not accountable.

Funny how it puts this other post today on HN in perspective. Something about trust and keeping things foolish: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=736522

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