I have found at times the community to CentOS-leadership relations to be
quite poor.
I have witnessed the summary judgements against people like Dag Wieers
driving them away. Useful members driven out.
I have seen release dates slip for months at a time with no word from the
people in control of CentOS. The project has come into jeopardy many times.
CentOS 5.4 was a fiasco.
I have always suspected that after each release the exact build environment
/ script to create the RPMs is not made available to bring about this end -
whereby the "secret sauce" of how to build the SRPMs on ftp.redhat.com are
still kept hidden by the CentOS leaders. This is not a community project.
Its a free rebuild with all the mock magic hidden by those who just got a
huge payout.
I am also wondering if the serially rude and dismissive behavior by some of
the folks in control of CentOS will continue now that they cash massive
checks from Redhat. I guess when you sell out one needs to be more polite.
Now we need to possibly find a new rebuild. I think that release dates will
still be something that the leaders here do whatever and whenever they want.
I think that there will be significant differences in RHEL and CentOS now. I
think the secret build sauce will remain hidden from view and the people
receiving big pay for Redhat will serve their new masters well.
I've been a user since the WBEL/cAos days. I worry about this state of
affairs. Deeply.
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