I intend to conform with the best practices described in the wiki and register a vendor zone for Oracle Linux.
I went through the steps outlined there a few months ago but haven’t heard back from anybody from the NTP pool project yet. I dug through the history and found out jch (no @ since I can only mention 2 users in a post) attempted that years ago with a similar result.
I thought to myself, perhaps, vendor zones are not a thing anymore, but then I found out that there are zones configured for Rocky and AlmaLinux – distributions which didn’t even exist when we applied for a zone for the first time in 2018!
So far, I’ve tried every e-mail address mentioned in the vendor zone wiki article and IRC channel. I’m posting this as a last resort, hoping someone could point me in the right direction to get the request through.
Sent, finally! Thank you for your incredible patience! I finished a bunch of improvements to the system this spring so new vendor zone applications don’t get lost in a huge pile anymore (it filters out most of the confused ones)
Thanks for all the effort, @ask. Do you think the vendor zone will be ready before the end of this year, or shall we postpone the change until next year?
I’d like to take this opportunity to bring up the topic of registering the Oracle Linux Vendor Zone. This would be a good opportunity, since a major release will appear in a few weeks.
Hey @ask, I see that navix succeeded in getting their request through you. What an amazing achievement! Since I just received my second-anniversary badge on this site, which I joined two years ago solely to register a vendor zone as requested by the usage policy of ntp.org, wouldn’t it be a great opportunity to resolve the issue?
Thank you for your incredible patience! I finished a bunch of improvements to the system this spring so new vendor zone applications don’t get lost in a huge pile anymore (it filters out most of the confused ones)