was there an advertised ETA for the next beta?

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:37:20AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 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'.

Yeah, I know. What the site says at the moment is really an accurate
answer, fwiw.
 
> 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?

What do you mean by "semi-external"?  Our general idea _is_ to make
this like openoffice.org is to Sun, I think, at least in many ways.

Havoc