Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 2008/10/11 Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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. Scientific builds Betas from the *released* version, not from the RHEL beta versions. So maybe we should come to terms with "what does Beta mean" ... > 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. Sure, that also comes into play. Ralph
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