Fantastic news!
CentOS and RHEL have been mutually beneficial projects for years. As a
user of both, I am extremely happy to see the ties grow between the
communities.
digimer
On 07/01/14 04:09 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
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> With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red
> Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining
> forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards
> team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation
> beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies.
> Working alongside the Fedora and RHEL ecosystems, we hope to further
> expand on the community offerings by providing a platform that is
> easily consumed, by other projects to promote their code while we
> maintain the established base.
>
> We are also launching the new CentOS.org website (
> http://www.centos.org ).
>
> - -------------
> The new initiative is going to be overseen by the new CentOS Governing
> Board. The initial Board comprises of the existing CentOS Core team
> members :
>
> - - Ralph Angenent
> - - Tru Hyunh
> - - Johnny Hughes JR
> - - Jim Perrin
> - - Karanbir Singh
>
> and also sees new members:
> - - Fabian Arrotin, who comes to the board nominated from the community
> - - Carl Trieloff, Karsten Wade, and Mike McLean join us, nominated by
> Red Hat.
>
> Please join me in welcoming the new members to the Board.
>
> The key operating points of the Board are going to be: Public, Open,
> and Inclusive. You can find more information about the governance
> model, the board, and the operating policies we are proposing at
> http://www.centos.org/about/governance/
>
> Furthermore, some of the existing CentOS Core members are moving to
> take up roles at Red Hat, as a part of their sponsorship of the CentOS
> Project, allowing these people to work on the Project as their primary
> job function. This includes Johnny Hughes Jr, Jim Perrin, Fabian
> Arrotin, and myself. We will be working with and operating out of the
> Red Hat Open Source and Standards team in the CTO's Office.
>
> - -------------
> Some of the things that are not changing:
> - - The CentOS Linux platform isn't changing. The process and methods
> built up around the platform however are going to become more open,
> more inclusive and transparent.
> - - The sponsor driven content network that has been central to the
> success of the CentOS efforts over the years stays intact.
> - - The bugs, issues, and incident handling process stays as it has been
> with more opportunities for community members to get involved at
> various stages of the process.
> - - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS firewall will also remain.
> Members and contributors to the CentOS efforts are still isolated from
> the RHEL Groups inside Red Hat, with the only interface being srpm /
> source path tracking, no sooner than is considered released. In
> summary: we retain an upstream.
>
> Feel free to reach out if you have specific concerns about how this
> change impacts your CentOS story. URLs mentioned at the bottom of this
> email should be a good starting point.
>
> - -------------
> Some of the key things that are changing:
> - - Some of us now work for Red Hat, but not RHEL. This should not have
> any impact to our ability to do what we have done in the past, it
> should facilitate a more rapid pace of development and evolution for
> our work on the community platform.
>
> - - Red Hat is offering to sponsor some of the buildsystem and initial
> content delivery resources - how we are able to consume these and when
> we are able to make use of this is to be decided.
>
> - - Sources that we consume, in the platform, in the addons, or the
> parallel stacks such as Xen4CentOS will become easier to consume with
> a git.centos.org being setup, with the scripts and rpm metadata needed
> to create binaries being published there. The Board also aims to put
> together a plan to allow groups to come together within the CentOS
> ecosystem as a Special Interest Group (SIG) and build CentOS Variants
> on our resources, as officially endorsed. You can read about the
> proposal at http://www.centos.org/variants/
>
> - - Because we are now able to work with the Red Hat legal teams, some
> of the contraints that resulted in efforts like CentOS-QA being behind
> closed doors, now go away and we hope to have the entire build, test,
> and delivery chain open to anyone who wishes to come and join the effort.
>
> The changes we make are going to be community inclusive, and promoted,
> proposed, formalised, and actioned in an open community centric manner
> on the centos-devel mailing list. And I highly encourage everyone to
> come along and participate.
>
> - -------------
> Contacting us works best via the established community mechanisms.
> - - Real time chats via IRC ( http://wiki.centos.org/irc ) ; To keep
> conversation sanity intact, I recommend using the #centos-devel
> channel to discuss project related activity while #centos is best used
> for end user conversations.
>
> - - The Mailing lists are a great way to interface with the developers,
> contributors and the community at large ( http://lists.centos.org ).
> As with IRC, we recommend using the centos-devel list to talk about
> project related issues while the general centos list is best used for
> end user conversations.
>
> - - The CentOS Forums are another great way to engage in conversation
> with other users ( http://www.centos.org/forums ), if you prefer that
> mechanism.
>
> All the above mentioned venues are public and open to the community,
> should you wish to discuss something privately, you can email us at
> centosdev@xxxxxxxxxx. Press requests should be sent to
> press@xxxxxxxxxx. Please note that it will take us much longer to
> reply to private requests as compared to content on the public venues.
>
> - -------------
> In the coming days we are going to create opportunities for people to
> come and get involved in more face to face interactions. Starting with
> a regular scheduled office-hours format hangouts (
> http://wiki.centos.org/OfficeHours ) that start early next week. We
> are trying to split the sessions into two different timezones so as to
> maximise the number of people who are able to join. The sessions will
> run live, with #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net being used for
> conversations alongside.
>
> We are also running a CentOS Dojo on the 31st Jan 2014 at Belgium (
> http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Brussels2014 ); The event will run
> two tracks, with lots of opportunities for social interaction between
> the talks; followed by CentOS in the Clouds Hack sessions. We are
> limited in the number of people we can accomodate, so I encourage
> everyone to register early.
>
> - -------------
> I want to take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors, the
> contributors and the CentOS team members for all their help over the
> years, the project is built completely upon those contributions - and
> I look forward to seeing even more involvement from everyone as we
> move forward.
>
> - -------------
> A Request:
>
> We are still sorting out content in various places and it might take a
> day or two to get everything in place. In the mean time if you find
> something stale and perhaps misleading in the new context ( or the old
> one! ) please drop in on #centos-devel at irc.centos.org and let us know.
>
> - -------------
> Some URLS:
> - - http://www.centos.org/ The CentOS Project
> - - http://wiki.centos.org/ CentOS Community wiki
> - - http://community.redhat.com/ RedHat OSAS
> - -
> http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-hat-and-centos-join-forces
> - - Red Hat Press Release
> - - http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq - Red Hat FAQ's about the
> initiative
> - - http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ - CentOS FAQ's about the initiative
>
>
> Enjoy! and regards,
>
> Karanbir Singh and everyone from the CentOS team,
>
>
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> Karanbir Singh, Project Chair, The CentOS Project
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