- Add more staff. As a small business owner, the very last thing you
want to do is add more staff when you are in a slammed state. It takes all of the 'productive' workers time to train the new staff and output slows to a crawl.
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- MOST IMPORTANT---- discussing this right now is the wrong time. The
CentOS team needs to be focused on the builds. They need to 'feel good'. They do not need these distractions, complaints, suggestions, pressures and generally negative comments at this moment in time. If it really bothers you, save it for later and bring it up when things are back to normal loads. Perhaps some good will come out of it, but not now. I know that most mean well, but look inside of yourself and the rush is about something you want... and YOU chose a FREE distro, which just so happens to convert to the paid version very easily.
As I stated on the other thread, this was discussed to death 18 months ago and I actually received assurances what has happened wouldn't happened. I am not holding anybody to what they said, but it adds further doubt about the sustainability of the distribution. Personally, I think it is better to lower expectation, but not leave it open ended, e.g. CentOS 6 will no more than another six months and 5.6 another 2 months. Perhaps we have been spoilt by the snappiness of the releases in the past. Plus, rename to something that doesn't suggest enterprise grade.
Anyway, I couldn't get Xen 4 +PVOPS kernel working with CentOS 5.5, so I have temporarily moved my Xen server to Debian, although the plan was to move it back when CentOS 6 came out, but I shall think of another plan.
Please please please... ease up, give them the time they need. Make notes for future conversations, but quit distracting them and making them feel bad. Or, write your scathing reply to a thread... get really down angry and in the dirt... then when you're done, just delete it.
The <delete> key works on everybody's keyboard.