On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
On 10/9/08, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
http://wiki.centos.org/AlainRegueraDelgado?action=AttachFile&do=get&...
I cant see the other one, but this one is incorrect. neither 4.6 nor 5.2 or 3.9 have those lifecycles.
I'll remake the images based on the available wiki FAQs dates. Wait for it.
The CentOS Version if 3 or 4 or 5, the point bit is only a revision under that and we need to make sure that its clear to people that what they run is CentOS-5 and not CentOS-5.2
People who *really* *really* need to care, are very very few, and they can work the relationship out between 5.2 and 5.1 themselves. If they cant, they dont need to care.
Perhaps an alternate display with 2 dimensions that could have point release info, as well as lifecycle info ? Or is there some other way to highlight the fact that while 5.2 is the latest release CentOS-5, its not what CentOS-5 is going to be forever ( which is what it looks like from this image ).
Karan, I take your mail to home ... I'll try to display these ideas.
Due the release timeline ... could we predict which will be the last release/update number of each major version ? Maybe a timeline could reflect in a more simple and clear way where people are ... something like:
Full Updates: --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------| 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5Maintainance Updates: --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------| 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9
where 5.5 is the last Full Update, and 5.9 the last Maintainance Update.
Unfortunately we can not predict future update releases. :)
But if minor releases could be added like shown above it would indeed be much clearer. Sadly it was practically impossible to do that in OpenOffice the way I implemented it and make it readable on the slides.