[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Thu May 12 14:15:39 UTC 2011


On 05/12/2011 09:49 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 05/12/2011 01:08 AM, Mark Bradbury wrote:
>>
>>>      >
>>>      >  Do you expect the C6.0 ->  C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less
>>>      >  complex than the C5.5 ->  C5.6 differences ?
>>>      >
>>>      >  And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1
>>>      would
>>>      >  take no more than 1 month ?
>>>
>>>      Get over yourself Dag ... for goodness sake.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why? seems like a valid point to me.
>>>
>> 1.  Have you, or anyone else, noticed the speed of the CentOS-5 and
>> CentOS-4 updates recently?  We have spread out the building and checking
>> up updates .. there has been a marked improvement is release speed for
>> updates.
>>
> Yes - noted and appreciated
>> 2.  Have you, or anyone else, noticed that we have started pushing out
>> the upstream EL Fastrack channel for CentOS-5.  In CentOS it is named
>> fasttrack (spelling) on our end due to upstream IP restrictions.
>>
>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/fasttrack/
>>
> Yes noted
>> 3.  Have you, or anyone else, noticed the QA tracking site that is open
>> to the public?
>>
>> http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/
>>
>> There is a dashboard of recent events:
>>
>> http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/dashboard
>>
>> There is even an RSS feed:
>>
>> http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/feed
>>
>> Most of the names who are posting there and taking action are NOT CentOS
>> Project guys, but community people ... isn't that what people were
>> asking for?
>>
> Yes - I even saw a calendar with some target and milestones
>> 4.  Have you, or anyone else, noticed the aggregated list of status
>> announcements that we now have?  The forum moderators are great and they
>> have started an announcement forum area where they aggregate important
>> information:
>>
>> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=53
>>
>>
>> ==================================================
>>
>> It does not seem to matter what we try to do,  what we get is petty
>> comments about how nothing changes.  Nothing could be further from the
>> truth.
>>
> Please note there is a largely silent majority that appreciates very
> much what the team does, is doing to improve and listening to suggestions
> Keep up the great work - Thanks
+1

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