Interoperability SIG

DRAFT

One of the major values of the EL rebuild ecosystem is the ability to interoperate, or the ability to fork from the upstream. This provides purpose in many ways, choice being the most heralded. Since the CentOS community has teamed up with Red Hat to allow for Special Interest Groups to join them, it seems that there might be a bit less of an ecosystem available. The goal of the Interoperability SIG is to ensure that the ability to fork and rebuild still exist.

Our community would exist outside of the CentOS community purview. The new community will serve as a "reference implementation", yet will still be operated and marketed as a product and community separate from CentOS. Consider it something of CentOS "embassy" of sorts.

It would seem that this SIG could possibly be construed as contrary to the goals of the CentOS project. However, we believe there is value added to the CentOS project. We are interested in improving the CentOS community in at least a few ways.

• Providing feedback and collaboration on common issues. Including, but not limited to, reporting bugs, providing patches, discussing packaging techniques, rebuilding variants, QA, ISO building, etc.

• Collaboration on documentation of the rebuild process, rebranding of documentation, providing new documentation, etc.

• Building or maintaining tools to ease rebranding of CentOS source as to ease adoption by companies who build upon and release software based on CentOS.

• Providing tools to help monitor statuses of releases, whether they be part of the CentOS community or otherwise.

• There are also personal benefits to both communities working together; camaraderie, friendships, similar goals, etc.