2008/10/11 Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> 2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> 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. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
