On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: > On 10/9/08, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: >> Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: >>> >>> http://wiki.centos.org/AlainRegueraDelgado?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=en-centos-lifecycle.png >> >> I cant see the other one, but this one is incorrect. neither 4.6 nor 5.2 >> or 3.9 have those lifecycles. > > I'll remake the images based on the available wiki FAQs dates. Wait for it. > >> The CentOS Version if 3 or 4 or 5, the point bit is only a revision >> under that and we need to make sure that its clear to people that what >> they run is CentOS-5 and not CentOS-5.2 >> >> People who *really* *really* need to care, are very very few, and they >> can work the relationship out between 5.2 and 5.1 themselves. If they >> cant, they dont need to care. >> >> Perhaps an alternate display with 2 dimensions that could have point >> release info, as well as lifecycle info ? Or is there some other way to >> highlight the fact that while 5.2 is the latest release CentOS-5, its >> not what CentOS-5 is going to be forever ( which is what it looks like >> from this image ). > > Karan, I take your mail to home ... I'll try to display these ideas. > > Due the release timeline ... could we predict which will be the last > release/update number of each major version ? Maybe a timeline could > reflect in a more simple and clear way where people are ... something > like: > > Full Updates: --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------| > 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 > > Maintainance Updates: > --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------| > 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 > 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 > > where 5.5 is the last Full Update, and 5.9 the last Maintainance Update. Unfortunately we can not predict future update releases. :) But if minor releases could be added like shown above it would indeed be much clearer. Sadly it was practically impossible to do that in OpenOffice the way I implemented it and make it readable on the slides. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
