--- Erik Paulson <epaulson@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >> > I'm curious how RedHat manages it's releases, > especially while balancing the > needs of RedHat users against the fact that most of > the code in your product > comes from somewhere else. For the next release of > RedHat, does the CEO wake > up one morning and decide "We should ship 7.3 in two > weeks", and everyone > scurries off to download the latest of the 1000 > packages that make it up, > put them into RPM's, and ship it out? :) Does > RedHat maintain a CVS tree of > everything that's continually evolving, and whenever > your release cycle > demands it you start to freeze that tree and do a > release from that? How do > you manage importing updates, and keeping whatever > patches you may have to > apply straight from release to release? Good luck on getting answers about their release practices. ===== Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- <RedHat Certified Engineer> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
