[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Tue Jun 10 00:17:07 UTC 2014
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

+1 for maintaining the current versioning scheme, I have not heard any reason to cinvince me itherwise, only straw man arguments such as these.

This could be a very expensive change, were it to happen. That is, expensive as in loss of market share and creation of confusion.

On June 10, 2014 12:33:29 AM CEST, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>On 06/09/2014 04:05 PM, Peter wrote:
>> On 06/10/2014 05:21 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>> Indeed. In some areas, we already are. That's what we want to turn
>>> around. This is the fundamental reason why we can't simply rest and
>keep
>>> doing what we've been doing. Even if we're flawless in the core
>mission,
>>> we'd still be ignoring emerging areas where we must grow to survive.
>> I don't think I've seen anyone argue against SIGs here.  I think most
>> people on this list understand the importance of SIGs to CentOS and
>the
>> future that CentOS will have with them.  What I see is many people
>here
>> saying that SIGs should not dictate the direction of the core OS,
>that
>> needs to remain pure to upstream.
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>No one is saying that anything in the Core OS is changing ... the Core
>OS will be the Core OS.  It will be ONLY packages in the RHEL tree and
>it will not contain anything extra.  That is not the issue here.  The
>issue is, people think they can run CentOS-6.4 after 6.5 is released
>and
>it is the same as running RHEL-6.4 AUS/EUS ... and its not.  Our
>numbering is not like their numbering and that is causing massive
>confusion that we need to fix.  One can absolutely, positively not stay
>behind and have security.  It is very dangerous.
>
>Add to that the fact that the SIGs also may need to have a new
>installer
>be created between RHEL releases, so we may (or may not ... only time
>will tell) need to create some new install trees.
>
>None of that adds packages into the os/ or updates/ directory that is
>not in RHEL ... that will be the same and people will have to opt-in to
>get anything that is not Core .. just like they do now.
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