As a lot of you have already seen the post (either on the CentOS mailing-list) or on http://planet.centos.org , something is happening within the CentOS project. Now that it's public, I can add my thoughts too on that "hot" topic. I started to use CentOS around release 3.4 (in fact converting a Whitebox linux to CentOS) and was really happy with the updates and also the contact with the team.What has changed since that time ? As you've probably read it already, Lance Davis, one of the CentOS Project founders and the "Leader" at that time, decided to not participate anymore in the project (absent from the lists/irc/events/etc ..) while still receiving money from the contributors. In fact, and that surely the point that hurted the most the whole CentOS crew, he never said what was the fund dedicated to the project and for what it was used/spent ! As most of the bandwidth/servers/mirrors are donations/contributions from ISP and other companies, I'll let your imagination work. Some months ago the whole centos.org domain (so website/lists/etc ..) were unavailable because the domain was not renewed (but locked) and the same issue for the Cacert ssl certificate used for the www.centos.org website.

So I add my opinion to the existing list even if that will not change the actual situation. "what will be the future of the CentOS project ?" will you ask ? I don't know , even if all the actual members agree to continue the project, with or without the centos.org domain (and name). Let's see how it goes ...