[colug-432] RedHat and CentOS buddy-up

[Scott McCarty]

Where is this documented, I am still trying to find this stated clearly in the announcements?


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joshua Kramer" <joskra42.list at gmail.com>
> To: "Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx" <colug-432 at colug.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 1:51:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] RedHat and CentOS buddy-up
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> 
> Strange... the CentOS mailing list and RedHat's official statements
> appear to differ.
> 
> http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/
> Will this new relationship change the way CentOS obtains Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux source code?
> Yes. Going forward, the source code repository at git.centos.org will
> replace and obsolete the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source rpms on
> ftp.redhat.com .
> 
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> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Scott McCarty <
> scott.mccarty at gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> inline comments...
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joshua Kramer" < joskra42.list at gmail.com >
> > To: "Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx" < colug-432 at colug.net >
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 12:25:45 PM
> > Subject: [colug-432] RedHat and CentOS buddy-up
> > 
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> > After reading this Wired article, I had to check my calendar to
> > make
> > sure it wasn't April 1st, or that I was mistakenly reading The
> > Register.
> > 
> > http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/redhat-centos/
> > 
> > Highlights:
> > 
> > 1. Redhat is hiring CentOS developers to work on CentOS
> > 2. The official source for source code used in RHEL will be
> > git.centos.org
> 
> This is the downstream code, not the upstream code.
> 
> from:
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html
> 
> =============================================
> - - Sources that we consume, in the platform, in the addons, or the
> parallel stacks such as Xen4CentOS will become easier to consume with
> a git.centos.org being setup, with the scripts and rpm metadata
> needed
> to create binaries being published there. The Board also aims to put
> together a plan to allow groups to come together within the CentOS
> ecosystem as a Special Interest Group (SIG) and build CentOS Variants
> on our resources, as officially endorsed. You can read about the
> proposal at http://www.centos.org/variants/
> =============================================
> 
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> 
> > 3. They are handing the CentOS trademark over to Redhat for
> > protection and stewardship.
> 
> Agreed
> 
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> > 
> > I see good things ahead for CentOS!
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