[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Sun Jun 8 16:58:11 UTC 2014
Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org>

On 8 June 2014 17:37, Bryson Lee <Bryson.Lee at sslmda.com> wrote:
>> From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-
>> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ned Slider
>> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2014 5:41 AM
>>
>> Yet another +1
>>
>> If a change is REQUIRED, that change should happen upstream in RHEL and
>> then filter down to CentOS - i.e, if RHEL-7.1406 were to be released then a
>> change to CentOS-7.1406 would make sense.
>>
>
> +1 for staying aligned with upstream.  "CentOS X.Y == RHEL X.Y" is easy to explain to management and corporate IT organizations that are hostile / risk-averse to open-source.  Anything that requires more words / though and you're on the defensive and have lost the battle.

+1 from me. Bryson's comment, above, is very pertinent.

Show me that the current system is broken and I will agree to fixing
it. "Fiddling" for the sake of "fiddling" is not required; after all
RHEL (and thus CentOS) is *not* Fedora.

Alan.