[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

On 06/20/2014 02:25 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 20/06/14 12:15, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > You think it is much easier to explain a data breach costing your client
> > in the field millions dollars because someone THOUGHT they had 7.1 EUS
> > and all its security updates, just like RHEL has, when the tree is at
> > 7.3?  We need to prevent people from thinking is OK to stay on an old
> > tree, it absolutely is not.
> The people who don't stay up to date are the ones who have never heard 
> of EUS and wouldn't know what it was if it bit them. They don't stay 
> up to date because they don't even know they should and adding an 
> incomprehensible date format to the release number won't make them do 
> so either. The addition of the motd telling you how many updates are 
> pending would do far more to address this than a random change to 
> something that doesn't need changing.
>
> It just adds confusion to the mix.
>
> T
+1 on both aspects. telling how many updates are pending would be more 
useful by far than changing the naming scheme.
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