It is also linked now here:
https://wiki.rockylinux.org/contributing
Dave
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 06:55:15PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I "subscribed" to the Slack Rocky EL "list" after the information on how-to
> subscribe was posted. It is possible that the public link in the URL bar of
> Firefox is not the "real" URL. I did provide a full quote of the relevant
> posting to the Rocky EL list; one needs the URL to verify that I had not
> mis-quoted. The question I raised still needs to be addressed: will Rocky
> EL be done by paid professionals (as with SL or Springdale Princeton EL) or
> will it be done by volunteers, some (many) of whom are "amateurs"? I am
> very concerned about the use in a production professional environment of an
> "amateur" port of RHEL. I am not interested in "cradle-to-grave" outsourced
> support, as under a RH or Oracle support contract, but access to the
> necessary information from a "professional" list such as this SL list, and a
> compensated professional staff behind the distro (as observed many times on
> this SL list).
>
> On 12/16/20 6:17 PM, Vinícius Ferrão wrote:
> > Hi Yasha, link seems to be broken.
> >
> > It points to a Google Docs document that???s unavailable.
> >
> > > On 16 Dec 2020, at 20:27, Yasha Karant <ykar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I do not know how many on the SL list have subscribed to the quite
> > > different Slack list for Rocky EL. Appended below is a very recent post.
> > > Note:
> > >
> > > We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks:
> > > ??? Management
> > > ??? Web and branding
> > > ??? Infrastructure
> > > ??? Security and compliance
> > > ??? Packaging
> > > ??? Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure
> > > ??? Installer development
> > > Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone
> > > who wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a
> > > Google form which will allow us to to start organizing the team at large.
> > >
> > > End excerpt.
> > >
> > > Both Princeton EL (Springdale) and SL are supported by paid professionals
> > > (as is Oracle EL -- unlike Princeton or Fermilab/CERN, Oracle is highly a
> > > for-profit operation with the overall goal of profiteering by whatever
> > > "legal" means possible -- evidently Oracle EL is not a viable alternative
> > > because of what comes after deployment of the "no-fee" version -- the HEP
> > > community does not seem to be adopting Oracle EL). I see no real
> > > personnel selection criteria or other personnel mechanisms in what I am
> > > reading about Rocky EL. Does anyone have further insight into this? An
> > > unreliable "bug for bug" port (distro) of RHEL 8 (and follow-on major
> > > releases) done by volunteers (some of whom may be professionals, some of
> > > whom may not be) seems risky for real production use.
> > >
> > > Is the HEP community considering Rocky EL executables as supplied? Or
> > > will the HEP community do internal evaluation and testing before
> > > deployment, keeping a working distro separate from the vagaries of what
> > > may (NOTE: *MAY*, not will) be an amateur volunteer distro?
> > >
> > > Take care. Stay safe.
> > >
> > > Yasha Karant
> > >
> > > gmk December 16th at 1:55 PM
> > > @channel This last week has been a rollercoaster, starting with the bad
> > > news from RedHat/CentOS about it no longer being a ???community??? or
> > > ???enterprise??? operating system, to seeing a community grow from
> > > nothing to something massive. Again, in just a week, here are some of the
> > > notable accomplishments from this amazing team:??? Literally thousands of
> > > people wanting to help overnight. This is the most engaging and motivated
> > > community I???ve seen ever over my more than 20 year career with open
> > > source.
> > > ??? The first week was very hard because there were more people asking to
> > > help and be part of this initiative than we could organize. Literally at
> > > some point, it took me about an hour to go from one side of my Slack
> > > messages to another. But now, we???ve built a structure and groups to
> > > properly direct the people who want to help to where they can start
> > > working.
> > > We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks:
> > > ??? Management
> > > ??? Web and branding
> > > ??? Infrastructure
> > > ??? Security and compliance
> > > ??? Packaging
> > > ??? Autobuilder research: will be moved to secure automated infrastructure
> > > ??? Installer development
> > > Now we are putting out a call for action. We want to hear from everyone
> > > who wants to contribute and be part of Rocky Linux, so we assembled a
> > > Google form which will allow us to to start organizing the team at large.
> > > Please add yourself to the form
> > > here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEXnqD1sNHz9cslkMNOk6krUtDdSCYbxL68TTsn7uGZnoSFQ/viewformThank
> > > you everyone for your patience while we have been setting up the
> > > organization itself, and I???m looking forward to hearing from you.
> >
