Seems this email didn't go through to the mailinglist, so I'll resend it now.
regards,
Florian La Roche
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From: Florian La Roche Florian.LaRoche@gmx.net To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:31:55 +0100 Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Reality V/s Fantasy
Hello KB,
One of the main things that the QA team needs to work with is whitelisting for release, the branding stuff. That intself means the qa team needs to stay small, non public access to early code builds. Also
Red Hat distributes the source without restrictions and e.g. kernel.org is mirroring it out on all its mirror systems, so there is no requirement to keep the CentOS source hidden due to branding/whitelisting issues AFAIK.
I agree that binaries should maybe be kept until the branding and major patching items are resolved, but clearly all this is a chicken-egg situation on how to grow the participation for CentOS, right?
regards,
Florian La Roche
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