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Migration proposal
During a recent meeting, it was decided that in response to the "collaboration" between Red Hat and CentOS, and its possible effects on the entire process of offering "variants" of the RHEL product, we would make a number of major changes to GoOSe. These changes are intended to set us on a new path, in an attempt to maintain the status quo and maintain a RHEL re-build on an independent basis without corporate influence (while adhering to the original goals of CentOS), and influence the community to reduce the level of fragmentation within the EL ecosystem.
All future development will be shifted toward producing EL6.5 and EL7 builds under the governance of a yet to be named community. The project's organization will be modelled on that of Debian, also using a meritocracy-based approach. Developers from GoOSe and Ascendos shall have positions in the project based on their expertise. It is also possible other EL rebuild communities may wish to join forces in this new community.
Representatives from the new community will establish a special interest group within the "new" CentOS community, aiming for "interoperability" between re-branded versions of EL and its related products. This includes being able to take the SRPMs/SPECs as they were provided from upstream and rebuilding them without the CentOS infrastructure, documenting the process of tooling a rebuild, and providing feedback and reporting bugs to ensure upstream improves packaging, QA, ISO building, etc.
Under this model, the new community shall serve as a "reference implementation", yet will still be operated and marketed as a product and community separate from CentOS. Consider it something of CentOS "embassy" of sorts.
The SIG proposal is detailed [here](Interoperability SIG)