On 2/18/2011 10:17 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > Mine too. The same things have been discussd for the past 4 years, and > the same arguments have been used. And in 2011 it still takes months to > release a new (minor !) release. > > More than 2 months have passed since the release of RHEL5.6. Everyone > running CentOS 5 did not have security updates for 71 (!) days and > counting... > > Considering that releases are 6 months apart, 2 months without security > updates means CentOS 5 users have no security updates 33% of the time. > (Luckily some releases shipped less than 2 months after RHEL !) > > Calling me a baby is probably the easiest approach to the problem. > > PS Looking back, CentOS 5.3 took 2 months, and CentOS 4.8 even took 3 > months to be released. CentOS 6.0 is a new time low with a delay of more > than 3 months, but without harming its userbase ;-) > Nobody should take this as criticism of the CentOS team, I appreciate what they do; but I am curious: What would it take to enhance the system to a point that the maximum delta between upstream release and CentOS release would be, for example, no more than three weeks? Is it a compute power issue? Is it a manpower issue? Is it a work flow efficiency issue? I think it's obvious from the reactions of the community at this point, that the majority of uses are not satisfied with the delta between upstream release and CentOS release - just look at this thread for proof, or go search the forum for "centos6". Again, please don't read this as criticism. It's a simple question of "how can it be improved?" --- - Nick Bright Network Administrator Valnet Tel 888-332-1616 x 315 Fax 620-331-0789