> Also, RedHat have closed the
rhl.redhat.com website and nobody
knows why
> and nobody knows what is currently going on.
This will get resolved, just hang in there.
out of curiosity - will we ever learn _why_ it was taken down?
That'd do a lot to show us that red hat is trying to operate in an open
manner.
The questions about the website have gotten a lot of the "red
wall-of-nda'd-silence". Kinda irritating: 'yes, we'd like to be more
open'. 'no, we can't tell you why we took a website down'.
I'd like to see someone external contribute this (once we have
the web site back and some other basics).
that sounds like a good idea.
> Now that RHL is a project, I hope there will be more rawhide
users. I
> appreciate if RedHat keeps the two or three last rpm of each packages in
> case if something goes wrong. At least the src.rpm.
That seems like a useful idea. I don't know how hard it would be
(there are mirrors, scripts, etc. to think about).
It might be worthwhile to talk to the mirrors-list and see if there
would be some merit in changing the layout of the ftp site some. Maybe
make a separation b/t the RHLP-type files and the RHEL-type files.
I can imagine a lot more sites being interested in carrying RHLP-type
files but not as interested in the RHEL-type files. (like the betas for
RHEL, and the other misc files) For example - a 17GB Taroon beta was
touch excessive ;)
I was talking to someone on irc the other day and they asked why didn't
red hat make RHLP a semi-external project like
openoffice.org is to sun.
I honestly didn't have an answer. Why not do that?
thoughts?
-sv