On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. For those who can and may have not noticed the link before: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
