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<DIV>Richard,</DIV>
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<DIV>While I like open-source applications and use them when practical I
like to make sure there is a readily available mechanism to support them
(through community or paid support) before I use them for critical purposes. For
the larger projects like linux, apache, etc it exists. To my knowledge such a
strong level of community support doesn't exist for CCM so I question the
viability of CCM as a true open source, community
driven product. This was one reason why my company purchased the
support and maintenance contracts through Red Hat. I would like more
information on Red Hat's short and long term vision for their involvment in
CCM.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Could you please answer the following questions:</DIV>
<DIV>1. What does this mean to those of us who have maintenance and support
contracts with Red Hat for CCM? </DIV>
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<DIV>2. Will Red Hat still provide maintenance and support contracts for CCM
after it's moved to Object Web?</DIV>
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<DIV>3. Will Red Hat employees work on CCM development as part of their Red Hat
duties or solely on their own time? You mentioned that the CCM engineering team
will no longer be dedicated to CCM development. What percentage of their time
will be spent on CCM development? How many resources are you removing from CCM
development and support that would need to be replaced by ObjectWeb and the
community to maintain the current level of CCM development?</DIV>
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<DIV>4. What does the short-term development for CCM look like?
For example, is the latest 6.1 release the last that will come out of Red
Hat or will there be an interim release while ObjectWeb takes the reins?</DIV>
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<DIV>5. What long-term support does Red Hat intend to provide for CCM
development? </DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>6. And, on a more minor note, but something that caused problems for us
while we were developing our first release... What will happen to this mailing
list and archives? Will they be ported to ObjectWeb? If so, will this list stay
up until a new one is available on ObjectWeb?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Bob<BR><BR>>>> Richard Li <richardl@redhat.com> 08/16/04
01:06PM >>><BR>Dear Community,<BR><BR>Over the past few months, we have
been listening to a lot of public and private feedback about our development
process, our software, and the community. Some of these improvements to date
include:<BR><BR>+ Simplification of the installation / configuration process
with the current builds<BR>+ General release of all documentation to the
community<BR>+ PostgreSQL support in 5.2.1<BR><BR>Many in the community have
commented on the closed nature of the development process. After much
discussion, we have decided that we need to do a fundamental shift in the CCM
product direction, and hopefully for the better.<BR><BR>Significantly:<BR><BR>+
The ObjectWeb consortium (www.objectweb.org) has agreed to host the CCM code and
community<BR>+ We are relicensing all the code under the LGPL<BR>+ CCM 6.1, the
latest version of CCM, will be made available for general public release<BR>+
The mailing lists will migrate to the ObjectWeb servers<BR>+ Red Hat will no
longer be the cathedral of CCM development; instead, Red Hat individuals work
work with other CCM developers to push the software going forward. The CCM
engineering team will no longer be dedicated to CCM development.<BR>+ Red Hat
will not be marketing CCM as a separate product line<BR><BR>We hope that this
approach will encourage a broader developer and community base. Initially, we
will be administering the site, but we hope to add external community
contributors as quickly as possible.<BR><BR>There is a lot of work to do here,
and it won't happen all at once. We're in the process of figuring out a new name
for CCM (there is an existing OpenCCM project on ObjectWeb); we have to set up a
project web site; and so forth. I expect that the above steps (ObjectWeb, LGPL,
6.1, etc) will take the better part of a month, but we will be moving as rapidly
as possible.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Richard<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Redhat-ccm-list mailing
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