Brockmeier: Red Hat and the Clone Wars III: The dawn of CentOS

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has been a part of the Linux community for decades;he is now using that experience to write a series on "Red Hat and the CloneWars". The first two episodes were RedHat and the Clone Wars and Ahistory of the early 2000s Linux landscape; the latest is Thedawn of CentOS:

In 2009, the main project admin for CentOS went radiosilent. CentOS had been spun up in the wild west days of theInternet, when it seemed totally fine to let one person hold thedomain, communications channels, and funds. Oops.

Folks depending on CentOS suddenly had a Come to Jesus moment. Whathappens if your production systems depend on a project where themain admin is AWOL and you have no plan for that?