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I have stayed still on the topic of release naming, as I had little new to offer. TL;DR: my opinion is that Smooge probably has it right suggesting most recently a NEVR of: Name: centos-release Epoch: nil Version: 7.0_201407 Release: 0.201407

And I see Johnny responding to a question about trust from 'Toracat', and "Ned Slider" [each long time community participants], suggest:

I finally get the opportunity to actually work on the project full time to make it better and somehow I am purposely recommending something that would somehow sabotage it? How does that make any sense at all?

While 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' of ulterior motives, I have the strong impression that 'behind the scenes', Johnny has been carrying the water and keeping the buildsystem running, as he has since the start of the 6 series for CentOS.

Part of that buildsystem is the ability to key off of a release file, which then cascades down into the 'dist' tag, and more. He seems to be an honorable man. Indeed, so are they all, all honorable men, absent indicia to the contrary.

BUT notwithstanding the RHT takeover, their number is still few -- I see very few public external 'community' members commits. About three outside people and that is it, in one sample

The three external non-source code branches which have activity at the centos 'git' site are: https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-cloud-instance!build-instance.git https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-core!bld-seven.git https://git.centos.org/tree/sig-core!livemedia.git

and they may be viewed without pulling the git contents at: https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-cloud-instance!build-instance.git https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-core!livemedia.git https://git.centos.org/summary/sig-cloud-instance!build-instance.git

I see overnight commits on: create mode 120000 mock/c7-updates-i386.cfg create mode 100644 mock/c7-updates-i686.cfg create mode 120000 mock/c7-updates-noarch.cfg create mode 100644 mock/c7-updates-x86_64.cfg

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We have been told that the buildsystem runs off mock configs, and I have absolutely no reason to doubt it

If a person wants a centos release file of a given form OTHER than a Version of: Major.Minor.`date +%y%m`

My example above would be: Major.Minor_`date +%Y%m`

... it is easy enough to edit the driver sources file for 'centos-release', and the corresponding mock config files via something like:

find . -type f -a -exec sed -i \ -e "@Major.Minor.`date +%y%m`@Major.Minor_`date +%Y%m`@g" {} ;

and submit a diff from the community

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Until then, there is a 'sunk cost' and the inertia of not touching running code [1]. Time for some community coders to step up and put meat on the bones of the words of alternative forms, or let it be

fwiw, I really dislike the use of '.' as the second separatorin Version, and simply changing to '_' and adopting a 4 digit YYYY would go a LONG way to dis-ambiguate possible interpretations, and aid communication to PHB's who dont want to know all the 'inside baseball' bike-shedding, which that thread represents

Just some thoughts

- -- Russ herrold

ps: nice link, Lamar. As a child in Montana, I was tasked with driving cows and their stupid heifers around the pasture and back to the barn, from time to time. The heifers, like those in Hosea, were amazingly stupid but creative (they could slip outside of the fences). I encountered once, and learned from that, to watch to avoid later contact with the 'presents' left by the cows in the fields

[1] http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-the-sunk-cost-fallacy-mak...