AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee

[Posted May 21, 2024 by jzb]

The AlmaLinux project has announced the formation of the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo):

[It] is dedicated to guiding the technical direction of the AlmaLinux distribution on a day-to-day basis within the guidelines set forth by the board, ensuring its robustness, reliability, sustainability, and relevance in the open-source ecosystem. ALESCo will work collaboratively with, and oversee relevant technical-focused Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to achieve these goals. It is "air traffic control" for engineering matters.

The initial members of ALESCo appointed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board are Andrew Lukoshko, Ben Thomas, Cody Robertson, Elkhan Mammadli, Jonathan Wright, and Neal Gompa. The AlmaLinux Wiki has more information on the committee's activities and how to get involved.

AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee

Posted May 21, 2024 18:42 UTC (Tue) by carlosrodfern (subscriber, #166486) [Link] (1 responses)

AlmaLinux is a great distro, what centos stream should have been but lacks the community push that AlmaLinux has. Very happy to see who the board members are.

AlmaLinux forms engineering steering committee

Posted May 22, 2024 1:08 UTC (Wed) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link]

As an outsider, it appears that Alma is picking up steam. That is really great to see as I really like the way they are positioning themselves as a RHEL compatible distro but one that does more than just recompile the SRPMS.

I really hope that the are rewarded commercially. It has been a long time since I have been part of the Red Hat ecosystem but every time I see a story on Alma I find myself thinking of how I might put them into service somewhere.

They are certainly the most interesting of the RHEL-alikes at this point ( in my view at least ).