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CentOS Administrator Reappears

Posted by Soulskill on from the bet-he-was-hiking-in-the-appalachian-trail dept.

str8edge sends word that Lance Davis, the CentOS project administrator who had mysteriously gone absent, has now returned and is working with the development team to get things back on track. From their announcement: "The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward. The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions. We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues. More information will follow soon."

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  1. Great way to piss off LTS userbase. by rikrebel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This whole story is unnerving.

    CentOS is widely used in datacenters due to it's red-hattyness, it's Long Term Support, and conservative adoption of whizbang.

    It's by far my favorite distrobution for important servers.

    I have already had two meetings over this and had my team start their proposals for alternate LTS distros and a migration plan. I am sure I am not the only one.

    If the CentOS project manages to remove this single point of failure I think confidence will return. But I think I'll keep my projects going for a while just in case.

  2. Re:nobody worries about Slackware like CentOS by iggymanz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but slackware will probably die when Patrick does

  3. Re:nobody worries about Slackware like CentOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And he has already been close to death with mystery illnesses:

    http://www.unix.com/news-links-events-announcements/16764-slackware-please-keep-patrick-volkerding-your-thoughts.html

    Did they ever figure out what he had?