Topic: Lycoris to take over contribs.org

[girkers]

It is a very sticky situation, but I feel that not enough information has been released onto what has happened and what is going to happen.  For example there was a post on the forum asking for volunteers and I for one put my hand up.  It also asked for team leaders, but not long after this was the announcement of Lycoris "takeover".

Now I don't have a problem with Lycoris coming on board, I hope if will be a good thing, but it is very hard to comment when nothing is being said about the future of the "product".  You can't tell me that Lycoris do not already have a plan in place for the future of the product and if they don't I then question there motives for "acquiring" SME.

If you take RedHat as an example it is a very successful company and many free products and they had products and services you could purchase at a reasonable cost.

Now if Lycoris follwoed this path as suggested in earlier posts I think it can be good, as long as the community based product does not lose out, I can only see it as a step in the right direction.

I think Lycoris need to let the community know what is going on.

[joseph]

I promised to send out a roadmap and haven't yet, and that's my fault.  I'll make sure one gets out tomorrow.  Jeff Coleman has said that he could put it up on the site as a news item, so it should appear shortly.

Thanks!

Joe

[girkers]

Thanks Joe for the prompt reply.

It is good to see that Lycoris is taking notice of us poor hacks  

[joseph]

np - a brief roadmap has been released to devinfo and will be available as a news item shortly.

Thanks again!

Joe