2008/10/11 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 04:06 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> There's no lead time for your own local development and testing. You >> would never expect one of the old RH X.0 releases to be production-ready >> but the new releases would have new kernels, libraries, and utilities so >> you could incorporate their features in your own work, which was likely >> to proceed at approximately the same rate as the distro evolved toward >> stability. With Centos you don't get anything to work with and test >> ahead of time, and if you'd tested on an earlier Fedora there may or may >> not be any relationship. A side effect was that the community of RH >> users that reported/fixed bugs in the X.0 got something for their effort >> in being able to continue using the updated release instead of being >> abandoned as a wildly new X.0 came out. > > 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 was wrong about why CentOS has not done Beta's in the past. So what can be done about getting the src.rpms for the next set of beta's (4.8/5.3) on the ftp servers when they are ready to be previewed? -- 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
