Yep.
Now that 5.0.x has made the leap to centosplus, that is where updates will go for the 5.0.x branch. It's possible that in the future a 5.1.x branch may pop up in testing, but the c4-testing repository is development land. Things there are not sure to last. If you leave it enabled, you'll need to be careful.
OK, thank you for clarifying. It would be nice to know when either cases happen (package traverses repos in either direction).
Because of this thread this occurrence worked out fine, but is there a separate list (other than CentOS announce) that I can subscribe to? I realize that Jim already pointed out that notice wasn't given as usual and I certainly wouldn't want to take anyone to task for it as I'm extremely thankful for everyone's work on the project, but I'd like to know if I'm missing part of the process. Also perhaps it would be good to have the whole testing/feedback repo process spelled out more thoroughly for us newbies. I have used some dev packages successfully and should be providing feedback into the process. I'm not able to do a lot of work in testing things like php5, but I suppose if I'm using it I should at least say "Hey, it's working!" to the repo maintainer.
Sorry to belabor this and flames are accepted if it's been spelled out before, but I'd rather ask than continue to benefit from the project without providing the most basic of help/feedback.
alex
On 7/26/06, Alex Palenschat alex@nssmgmt.com wrote:
Because of this thread this occurrence worked out fine, but is there a separate list (other than CentOS announce) that I can subscribe to? I realize that Jim already pointed out that notice wasn't given as usual and I certainly wouldn't want to take anyone to task for it as I'm extremely thankful for everyone's work on the project, but I'd like to know if I'm missing part of the process. Also perhaps it would be good to have the whole testing/feedback repo process spelled out more thoroughly for us newbies. I have used some dev packages successfully and should be providing feedback into the process. I'm not able to do a lot of work in testing things like php5, but I suppose if I'm using it I should at least say "Hey, it's working!" to the repo maintainer.
The Centos-devel mailing list, and the #centos-devel irc channel are the big places. There are tracking bugs for most things in the c4-testing repository (I slack off on this a bit, so they're not ALL in there.. I'll fix that when I fix it.) where both positive and negative feedback is welcomed.
Sorry to belabor this and flames are accepted if it's been spelled out before, but I'd rather ask than continue to benefit from the project without providing the most basic of help/feedback.
Beyond the bugs.centos.org site, there isn't really a set "request" path other than people asking in irc. Partially this is because some people ask for some amazingly screwed up things that violate all sorts of distro ideals (nightly kernel builds, beta versions of gnome.. that sort of stuff)... and partly because irc provides me an opportunity to hash out ideas or expectations for packages with the requester.
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