[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/10/11 Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora at strg-alt-entf.org>:
>> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>> 2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
>>>> CentOS should be putting out betas that match the RHEL betas so that you
>>>> can get access to it before the release.  Use Fedora as the technology
>>>> driver, use Betas as the bugfix cleanup for platform issues, and
>>>> eventually you get the "Enterprise" release.
>>>
>>> I think the major problem with CentOS putting out beta's in a timely
>>> basis is that a large amount of time is getting the build resources
>>> together AND then deciphering various build variables that RHEL uses
>>> so that the CentOS binaries 'match' close enough to be bug for bug
>>> compatible. The time to do that basically had a CentOS-5beta out at
>>> the time that RHEL-5 is finalized.
>>
>> Not having publicly available SRPMs for the beta versions (meaning
>> available via public ftp) might be another reason.
>
> I thought the SRPMS were available, as Scientific Linux uses the
> public ones to build their Betas.
>
> I thought it was more a level of priority. CentOS is a volunteer
> project with a lot of costs shouldered by the developers. There is
> usually a shortage of diskspace, slow net links to various build
> machines spread around the world, the fact that various devs have full
> time jobs (there is no full-time build manager like Fedora and SciLin
> have), and various other items. Any of which puts making betas a lower
> priority than dealing with current issues.


For those who can and may have not noticed the link before:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23


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