Hi Centos Team,
I was here the hard days in which CentOS 6 appeared would never appear, and then was CentOS 5.6 (maybe 5.7...do not remember well) that struggled to see the light and I was very afraid CentOS would not survive... but as I was worried in the past actually I'm very impressed of the speed of latest releases: what has changed? Just out of curiosity...
Thanks for your hard work and great product, Bye Piero
On 03/27/2012 01:08 PM, Piero wrote:
Hi Centos Team,
I was here the hard days in which CentOS 6 appeared would never appear, and then was CentOS 5.6 (maybe 5.7...do not remember well) that struggled to see the light and I was very afraid CentOS would not survive... but as I was worried in the past actually I'm very impressed of the speed of latest releases: what has changed? Just out of curiosity...
Thanks for your hard work and great product, Bye Piero
I can't speak to specifics, but I do know that upstream put a lot of effort into parring down what is in EL6. Their goal was to simplify and streamline support, and to allow them to focus on a smaller subset of tools to improve the support on those components still in the new release.
If I were to guess, I would say that this clean-up and slim down did a lot to improve the performance, as well as reduce the supported code base to such a degree that they could more effectively improve quality and performance.
My $0.02 guess.
On 03/27/2012 03:08 PM, Piero wrote:
Hi Centos Team,
I was here the hard days in which CentOS 6 appeared would never appear, and then was CentOS 5.6 (maybe 5.7...do not remember well) that struggled to see the light and I was very afraid CentOS would not survive... but as I was worried in the past actually I'm very impressed of the speed of latest releases: what has changed? Just out of curiosity...
Thanks for your hard work and great product, Bye Piero
Several things have changed (we finalized a new build system, we reworked the alert system to tell developers when a new packages are available, we have more people with access to build updates for all releases).
The bottom line for the 6.x series is that we had to develop an all new build system on all new machines. This build system had to use only 6.x machines (which did not yet exist). We also streamlined and automated the QA system with the help of the people listed in the bottom of the 5.8 release notes. Quoting it here again:
"We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product and would like to specifically acknowledge the extra effort made by some very dedicated members of the QA Team. Fabian Arrotin, Akemi Yagi, Athmane Madjoudj, Manuel Wolfshant, Jeff Sheltren and Anssi Johansson were instrumental in enabling us to release 5.8 this quickly. "
I can also tell you that I see things getting better in the future.
On 27.3.2012 22:08, Piero wrote:
in the past actually I'm very impressed of the speed of latest releases
Some weeks ago it occured to me that the CentOS announce was in my inbox before the corresponding announce from RedHat. Yes, I know how smtp works, but still...
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