On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:34 +0300, Balint Cristian wrote: > Hello EPEL folks, > > Is it possible from RH side to sponsor me with > (lets say RHEL 5.X) license for be able to maintain > properly the GIS interest group ? > > > Wiki of GIS, list of packages which I maintain > from booth professional reasons and hobby: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GIS?highlight=(GIS) > > I would mention packages are quite picky and > hard to maintain, complexity is pretty high, I > myself maintain for multiple reasons tham in fedora. > > Task is quite difficult without a RHEL desktop, > frecvent ABI changes require to develop sort > of compat-* library, and its not so easy to test > product properly in the lack of properly licensed > RHEL desktop. Unfortunatley upstream release cycle > is faster than RHEL release one, and new futures are > always requested before a new RHEL product series. > > Just using blindly the plague client its near impossible > to do this task, I personaly fail to do it for EPEL at highest > quality with version track and compatibility changes > but its an easy task for fedora since there are no strict > rules, not to much care if radical upgrade is involved. > > I see GIS interest group as a good ground base for all > GIS professionists, and finaly RH products could cover > this professional area too, wich was completly uncovered > before i took the task, and i would like to keep it on. > > Also I would mention that other people make money > out of these packages and support, I did it for free > of course, since these days it quite intersect with my > work and professional area in wich i am involved. > > Here is one example: http://www.gdf-hannover.de/ > > Personaly quite dissapointed how they support distros, > but its personal opinion dont want any polemics with > tham, however I salute their initiative. > > Obviously i am a RH fan since 1996, quite difficult > to distract my opinion and blame anything about > RHEL/Fedora quality. > > Best Regards, > Cristian. >
You should consider using CentOS. [1] It's 99.9% compatible with RHEL. - Gilboa [1] http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15 _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
