[CentOS-devel] Missing security updates
Charlie Brady
charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au
Wed Jul 21 19:28:37 UTC 2010
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> >> Tru has done the builds this morning, ...
> >
> > There seems to be a systematic process issue that the CentOS project
> > should address. There shouldn't be a single point of failure. I would
> > think that more tech resources are available to you if you ask.
>
> The lead CentOS devels have a redesign for some more
> 'trellising' in front of them presently.
>
> There is a entire workflow and QA to this which needs to be
> done right, or we might, (for example) introduce possible
> mirror skews and potentially unsolveable dependency holes
> requiring manual problem solving on literally millions of
> machines. We dare not risk such slipping into our process
But unpatched security holes is OK? ;-)
I do respect what you are saying, but I don't see evidence that final QA
and pushing to mirrors is what is holding up these updates.
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