On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote: > What exactly is "closed" about the process? Sausages from the > @redhat.com factory arrive on lthe CentOS oading dock, are examined, > tallied, listed, stamped, processed, and re-distributed. The entire > process for CentOS release engineering is easily seen, been the same > since forever. Do you have any references for the "examined, tallied, listed, stamped" part of these processes? I was unaware that there was any external visibility on these internal CentOS processes. There's nothing here, for instance: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4386 Is the information available elsewhere? > There's nothing stopping anyone from grabbing the sausages in the > "security release", building, installing, testing, and reporting > "worksforme" to assist in expediting a "security release". I'm not sure how that would help. We already know that Red Hat have built and presumably tested these packages. If I say that I've built and tested them, does that churn them through the CentOS process any quicker? Does it add any assurance to the packages *as built by CentOS*? --- Charlie