On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:22 -0300, Leonardo Vilela Pinheiro wrote:
Hi,
I´d like to understand better the release cycle of Centosplus packages.
From http://mdw1982.com/pipermail/centos_search/2006- March/006556.html : "Packages for centosplus are submitted to the developers, we check package quality, build, stability, etc. We discuss the packages, and they go to the development repository. If they get enough positive feedback, they move to centosplus. If not, they sit there because ostensibly there is no one using/pushing for them."
For every package in Centosplus, is there a responsible person in charge, which should release security updates/patches for it?
The person in charge of the packages (most of them are me or Jim Perrin) will update those if an upstream release is done ... as most of those packages are either rebuilds of our normal packages with different options (ie, kernel) or some other upstream released packages (ie, RHWAS for mysql, php, postgresql, httpd), or something else ... like jfs or xfs tools (which go with the kernel).
The bottom line is ... those packages can be used and we will make every effort to keep them updated ... but they are not as well tested as CentOS proper.
Do you know how is this process inside Red Hat, and how our process compare to theirs?
No idea exactly what their process is ... but our process is not like that one; as in ... we have no one working for us who does nothing but X or Y package all day long.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes