CentOS, will it survive?

sblantipodi · Post by **sblantipodi** » 2009/08/02 16:52:10

Please read here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/21921/CentOS_Project_Administrator_Goes_Missing-in-Action

Do you think that CentOS will survive without his boss?

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » 2009/08/02 17:55:31

I would visit http://www.centos.org/ before discussing ancient, no longer relevant, "news", and even then I would rather discuss it in the Social forum.

AlanBartlett · Post by **AlanBartlett** » 2009/08/02 18:30:42

[b]Moderators[/b] -- Please move this to a more appropriate forum.

Post by **toracat** » 2009/08/02 18:32:05

Moved to Social.

Post by **scottro** » 2009/08/02 19:44:55

Actually it would probably be good if someone in authority (whatever that is--Toracat? Ned?) would post a more or less definitive explanation of what went on.

I'm hearing stranger and stranger rumors in the Linux-verse, and it would be nice to have one link to just put it all to rest.

Rumors have gone from Dag leaving rpmforge, to people assaulting each other with kitchenware---I think that's what they meant, the headline was something like threatens with fork., though I would have felt a knife would be more imposing, or perhaps a soup spoon.

The fact that the section on the right, next to the open letter, had the word "facts" in it, seemed to have frightened a lot of people away from reading it. :)

Post by **toracat** » 2009/08/02 20:36:04

First off, there is no way Ned or I can give any authoritative explanation. :-o

The best source of information can be found at http://planet.centos.org . There, the CentOS developers did explain the details on what happened. Or visit each dev's blog:

[url=http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/07/30/open-letter-to-lance-davis]Karanbir Singh's blog[/url][url=http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-up-with-centos-project.html]Tim Verhoevens blog[/url]
[url=http://orcorc.blogspot.com/2009/07/sadly-open-letter-to-lance-davis.html]Russ Herrolds blog[/url]

And the current message found at http://www.centos.org :

"The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward.

The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions.

We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues.

More information will follow soon."

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