On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Devinfo list members, > > As has been hinted on this list, we are following Red Hat's lead with > Fedora and turning the SME Server developer release over to the community. > > I don't think that this should come as a big surprise to anyone who has > followed developments within the industry or on this list over the past > years. > > As was eloquently stated on the list earlier today, Mitel is a > commercial enterprise and has decided to focus our developers on our > commercial products. Some of our developers may choose to continue to > stay involved with whatever community effort emerges, doing so on their > own time and outside of their regular responsibilities within Mitel. > > As noted below, we will be continuing to develop applications on top of > our commercial release and as we make changes to GPL components we will > release them to the community just as any other developer should do. > > What does this mean for the SME Server unsupported developer release, > this list, e-smith.org, our commercial products, etc.? Read on... >
Dan, et al., I would like to hope that, like the Redhat Fedora Project, Mitel will also be involved as Redhat is involved. >From Redhat/Fedora "The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux." It appears that Mitel, unlike Redhat and Fedora, will not be actively participating in the building of the new "E-Smith Core", although Mitel will assist in the transition to the E-Smith Community. This brings up some questions that I'm sure the community would like to have answered, at least I know that I would :-) Also please do not take this as negative criticism at all. It definitely is not. E-Smith/SME is a great package and would not have gotten as far as it has if it were not for the original group and the Mitel group. 1. Although a relatively minor issue, does the name have to be changed? 2. If Mitel is continueing the commercial version, what platform will they be using? It makes sense to avoid forks, particularly since "we will be continuing to develop applications on top of our commercial release and as we make changes to GPL components we will release them to the community just as any other developer should do". 3. Are there any plans to "follow Redhat's lead" regarding someone at Mitel to at least act as a consultant to the not-yet-but-soon-to-be deV team for the Community version. Thanks for your time, and Regards, John C. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
