On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it.
For people who do like it, we do want you to use it.
What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service Level Agreement with CentOS to produce updates on their schedule.
If you WANT a service level agreement with me, then you may contract for one. If you pay me enough, I will guarantee you updates on what ever schedule you are willing to pay for. I will be very professional in my dealings with you in that case too.
When you want something that is provided for free, and when you want to treat me like you are paying me a million dollars a year to give it to you, guess what ...
You can also get service level agreements from Red Hat or from Oracle or Novell.
This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look like rank amateurs.