ANTHOLOGY — Packages, pledges & protocols (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Chad Whitacre, Head of Open Source at Sentry about the launch of Open Source Pledge and their plans to helps businesses and orgs to do the right thing and support open source.

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Featuring:

• Carl George – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Max Howell – Twitter, GitHub
• Chad Whitacre – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• RHEL
• AlmaLinux
• Rocky Linux
• tea.xyz
• opensourcepledge.com

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Capitole

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:08)

https://sentry.io/

3. Windows 95! (00:04:25)

4. Start the show! (00:04:31)

5. OK, BBQ. (00:04:47)

6. What do you do here? (00:07:56)

7. Engineer at RH since 2019 (00:11:09)

8. CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora (00:12:26)

9. Jerod is still confused (00:18:12)

10. Acquiring CentOS (00:18:32)

11. Upsteam or down? (00:20:46)

12. Rebuilder vs Product (00:25:24)

13. They want RHEL for free (00:30:26)

14. This is the angst (00:31:30)

15. Meta and CentOS (00:35:10)

16. Juicy future (00:35:55)

17. Extra in EPEL (00:39:57)

18. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:42:54)

https://coder.com/

19. Sponsor: Eight Sleep (00:44:58)

https://www.eightsleep.com/changelog

20. It's Max Howell (00:47:33)

21. News changed the plan (00:47:49)

22. How does the value flow? (00:50:39)

23. What is Tea? (00:55:33)

24. Do I need buy in? (00:56:53)

25. Betting or buying into specific packages (00:58:09)

26. How does staking work? (01:00:01)

27. How many tokens do you keep? (01:01:07)

28. Onboarding projects (01:02:38)

29. Working with maintainers (01:03:50)

30. Why did you do this? (01:06:17)

31. When?! (01:07:49)

32. Understanding value seems clear (01:08:57)

33. Adam shares an idea (01:12:02)

34. Could this help secure open source? (01:18:50)

35. Go to tea.xyz (01:19:52)

https://tea.xyz/

36. Sponsor: AssemblyAI (01:20:48)

https://www.assemblyai.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast

37. The state of OSS funding (01:24:12)

38. What do you get out of it? (01:27:27)

39. Extending the FOSS Fund (01:32:17)

40. Who's behind this? (01:37:10)

41. Close the loop on JSON (01:38:50)

42. Let's wave a magic wand (01:40:35)

43. Go to opensourcepledge.com (01:42:28)

https://opensourcepledge.com/

44. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:42:38)