Phil Schaffner wrote:
"So: QA 5.6 and 6.0 in parallel or prefer one release over the other. Imho, 5.6 impacts existing installs, should get higher pref. Thoughts ?"
Agree. A public announcement of a decision on this, when made, would help head off a lot of user questions.
Phil
Let me express my personal opinion on that discussion (there was already a small discussion about that on IRC). I'd prefer seeing 5.6 than 6.0 and for specific reasons :
- the centos 5.x install base is there while there is (obviously) no centos 6 install base. - So those people having machines in production, faced to the net, etc, etc would prefer having their machines patched and up2date (security first !) - people running CentOS 5.x on servers and waiting for php53 packages, now officially included - on the build side, the el5 build process is clearly identified and known since 2007 : packages with branding issues are already identified and patches/artwork is already there, meaning that it will be probably (surely) faster to have 5.6 out of the door than 6 - same rule for the QA process : people from the QA team can blindly focus on their previous tests, and just have a look eventually at some newer packages (a few, like php53 but not that much in comparison with el6)