[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

On 06/22/2014 03:40 AM, Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
>
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> On Jun 21, 2014 1:42 PM, "Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org
> <mailto:johnny at centos.org>> wrote:
> >
> > On 06/21/2014 05:00 AM, Ron Yorston wrote:
> > > Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > >> What better way to communicate that they are not standalone but
> are all
> > >> only part of the MAJOR release and a POINT IN TIME part of that major
> > >> release than to name them "<MAJOR RELEASE>.<POINT IN TIME>" ?
> > > The current scheme represents <POINT IN TIME> as an integer that
> starts
> > > from zero and increments with each minor release.
> > >
> > > I remain unconvinced that a YYMM representation of <POINT IN TIME> is
> > > any better.
> >
> > It is not really better at conveying time, no.  It is the same at
> > conveying the time.
> >
> > Where it is better is in denoting that Red Hat is doing things inside
> > the 6.4 tree (again, just following the above example) while CentOS does
> > not do those things inside our 6.4 tree after we release 6.5.  We can't
> > do them, even if we want to as we don't have the sources.
> >
>
> Why we don't have the sources? Isn't Red Hat obliged to give the
> sources with the binary packages?
>

The Sources are available on git.centos.org.

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