[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Sun Jun 8 21:12:26 UTC 2014
Brian Stinson <bstinson at ksu.edu>

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014, at 20:19, Peter wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I honestly don't see how this will help
> SIGs, also I'm not entirely sure that it's the best course of action to
> put the needs of SIGs above the core value of maintaining RHEL
> compatibility.  Also is this supposed need to help the SIGs theoretical
> or is it an actual problem that we are seeing now?  Can the problem be
> spelled out in more detail and try to find a better way to tackle it as
> a community?

+1 to maintaining the version numbers as they are. It's clear that the
SIGs will add significant value to CentOS ecosystem, but they (IMHO)
shouldn't supplant CentOS's primary asset: technical _and_ colloquial
interoperability with RHEL. I think I understand the motivation for
another versioning scheme, but surely there's a way to namespace
everything such that it doesn't affect those who prefer the vanilla
distribution.

-- Brian