The CentOS project, the Linux distribution aimed at the enterprise built from Red Hat's freely available source code, has hit a significant bump in the road: the project's main administrator, Lance Davis, has gone missing-in-action. This is kind of a problem as Davis is the sole administrator fo the CentOS.org domain, the IRC channels - and the CentOS funds.
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Member since:2005-07-06
I agree really. Apparently they've been trying to get something out of Lance for over a year and it's obvious he has been acting improperly. They should have then just moved to make sure they had control of the domain name and then completely disassociated themselves and CentOS from him.
If you're going to act then do it. The sensationalism wasn't necessray and an open letter cannot possibly achieve anything now after what has happened.
Member since:2005-07-17
they need a way to get on public record saying this guy is gone rogue so they can move to replace him. Obviously, he's not restricted the website, but if THEY are accepting money (as some type of not-for-profit organization) then THEY have to account for it or have big problems. Getting a new domain name isn't the problem, moving to new servers or hosting isn't the problem, it's accounting for the "common property" of the group and funds other people have given them.
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2005-07-24
Regardless of the reliability of OSS software support in general, this was a poor way for the "Community ENTerprise OS" to deal with the situation. Even once it was determined that some sort of general call needed to be put out, there was no reason to prepackage sensationalism in the open letter itself.
The CentOS team normally conducts themselves in a highly professional manner. This is quite out of character for them. And they did recently report a break in on one of their servers: http://lwn.net/Articles/340130/
Hmmmm....
Edited 2009-07-30 18:39 UTC