CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Michael Lauzon<mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lance Davis, the main project administrator for CentOS, a popular free
> 'rebuild' of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, appears to have gone AWOL. In
> an open letter* from his fellow CentOS developers, they describe the
> precarious situation the project has been put in. There have been
> attempts to contact him for some time now, as he's the sole
> administrator for the centos.org domain, the IRC channels, and
> apparently, CentOS funds. One can only hope that Lance gets in contact
> with them and gets things sorted out.

Ouch.

For any project of any kind of importance, it is pretty essential to
have some "continuity contingencies."

It's a lot like having a will...  You don't particularly want to *use*
it, but it's mighty risky to be without some modicum of planning to
deal with "unfortunate possibilities."

Particularly notably...  A lot of folks have been using CentOS as a
"cheap RHAT alternative," on the basis that it was readily available,
largely identical, and you weren't tied to RHAT.

Unfortunately, what is evident is that quite a bit of infrastructure
of the project was invisibly-but-vitally tied to Lance Davis.

I don't have any reason to think he's a bad guy in any fashion, but
his being so inextricably tied in has the regrettable potential to be
a fatal problem for the project :-(.
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