Also former Red Hatter, disclaimer also applies. According to my observations, Red Hat does an unbelievable amount of stuff by hand. Lots of internal processes

Also former Red Hatter, disclaimer also applies. According to my observations, Red Hat does an unbelievable amount of stuff by hand. Lots of internal processes require someone to do something at a given point, otherwise these distros are not happening. I believe RH is now cutting costs at precisely these places: projects that don't directly contribute to the revenue get cut. However, as the post said, these changes make it incredibly hard to ship open source software for RHEL-likes to the point where I already decided to look for alternatives when doing integration work.