[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Sat Jun 7 13:26:40 UTC 2014
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 06/07/2014 06:01 AM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 07/06/14 01:44, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> Taking on board the community and environment expansion that is taking
>> place around the CentOS project, the CentOS Board has been considering
>> how best to accomodate these efforts.
>>
>> I'm attaching here a plan put forward by the board towards that aim.
>>
>> Thoughts ? Comments ?
> 
> I think that given the difficulty that we already have in persuading
> people to update to 6.$latest from 6.$prehistoric that produciing even
> more frequent variants is not such a good idea.


This is one of the reasons behind the idea of using dates. We could more
easily show someone that what they were using was prehistoric because
the date would be in their string. Do you think this would be more or
less helpful on irc to be able to say something like "look, it says
right in your release string that you're 2 years behind on updates"?






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