Rebuilding Enterprise Linux - The 'Community' Way

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1. Rebuilding Enterprise Linux The 'Community' Way

2. Hello. I'm Clint Savage People online call me herlo I

   participate online in many places

3. What is this GoOSe Project? You keep ranting about? Is

   GoOSe an acronym? Why is OS capitalized?

4. The GoOSe Project... Is my latest passion Is an 'Enterprise

   Linux' Rebuild Project Is an 'Enterprise Linux' Rebuild Project Wants to grow the Enterprise Linux ecosystem Focuses on making rebuilds a 'repeatable' process

5. Why are you building The GoOSe Project? Doesn't CentOS* already

   do this? Is there really a need? * - Ask Scientific Linux, ClearOS, Acendos. They probably have also thought this through.

6. CentOS releases are becoming more time-consuming. Image Credit: http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2011/07/centos-6-great-but-for-how-long/

7. CentOS is for the community ... it is not BUILT

   buy the community. -- Johnny Hughes (March 10, 2011) http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-March/007101.html What does that mean? It means something important is missing!

8. It is all about The Community A community of 'contributors'

9. Contributors are the key Image Credit: http://iquaid.org/2009/04/14/community-sets/ to successful communities

10. While working on building GoOSe Linux and its community Unintended

    serendipity We find very positive side effects

11. Collaborating with other Enterprise Linux Rebuild projects More Hands, Less

    Work Makes it easier to do the hard stuff Mirroring of Upstream Sources Cross-project backups Collaboratively Creating Docs Building QA Test Suites

12. You need a solid Infrastructure To rebuild an enterprise operating

    system

13. Our Toolbelt We stand on the shoulders of awesomeness! Then,

    there is our codebase. It's not small! Written for the GoOSe Project • skein – manages imports and builds • grapple – git hook to automate koji • chase – reporting tool (very alpha) • reposort – dependency ordering (alpha) Forks from other projects • python-github2 • planet • supybot-gribble / meetbot • many others http://github.com https://fedorahosted.org/koji http://python.org

14. Fork the gooseproject/main repository Join the GoOSe Project And send

    us a pull request!

15. Thank you for your attention! web: http://gooseproject.org email: [email protected] project

    url: http://github.com/gooseproject irc.freendode.net: #gooseproject Slides available @ http://speakerdeck.com/u/herlo/p/rebuilding-enterprise-linux-the-community-way