Re: [rhn-users] New version on redhat - Fedora + RHN?

["Luke Rosenthal" <lists luko org>]

> I do hope that someone picks up the ball with the up2date service, maybe
> Novell/Ximian perhaps?  Otherwise it's us monitoring cert and others
> like crazy, build and distribute.

How many man-hours do you think RedHat spends on this at the moment?  I
reckon it's a profit turner for them.  So when they discontinue it in
December, it's gotta be worth a bunch of people banding together and
either approaching RedHat with a firm comittment to paying the RHN fees to
keep it going, or forming a breakaway "RHN2" movement, either using the
current RHN code (if it's GPL'd) or somehow forming our own system with a
new client.

Hell, even just a repository that carries the critial updates & patches
for RH73, RH8 (and RH9 when it expires) so we've got a less-than-hurried
migration path, be it to another RedHat product or elsewhere.  I don't
mind manually applying RPM's but monitoring CERT and manually patching
everything is gonna be a pain in the rectum.

Personally I'd be more than happy to donate resources to such a venture.. ??

Of course, all this assumes RedHat has no plan for us, which it may...
RedHat, can you clarify?

Luke