On 06/08/2014 12:10 AM, Kay Williams wrote: >> On Friday, June 06, 2014 5:44 PM, 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 ? >> > > Is the primary driver for the new versioning scheme the ability to expose > SIG repos in the installer at a rate that differs from the RHEL release > schedule? > > If so, seems like we could address this by coding up the new installer UI > (whatever it is) to allows new repos to come along at varying rates and > automatically appear in the UI. > > Then we get the best of both worlds - new SIG repos when they are ready, and > compatibility with the RHEL versioning scheme. > > No? > I am also against changing core versioning number. Question: Have you decided to add repository files of SIG's into the main ISO/repository? I am not aware of that. If you ARE gpoing to create core distro different from RHEL releases, adding ALL repositories for EVERY SIG, then X.YYMM can be accepted as versioning scheme. BUT, if you plan to keep core distro sterile, comparable with RHEL, then current versioning scheme must be kept in place, since it will be the mirror of the RHEL releases. If SIG's can keep up with released updates of core distro, then there is no need to change their versioning either. They will just release updated packages at the time of core release, or just add older package in their own repo, which I am assuming will have priority over base/os/updates repositories, so any later core version will work also. But, as far as I can see, real problem will be that SIG's will be needing NEWER packages then provided in core distro, so again that package will be provided in their higher priority repository, and it will be totally irrelevant what version core distro is. It looks like we are again coming back to the issue of priorities of the various repositories and their hierarchy that I think should be incorporated into core distro by setting sane priority values (properly separated) and mandatory installation of "yum-plugin-priorities" package. Or at least to provide "centos-release-with-priorities" in Extras repository that will replace "centos-release" and demand that "yum-plugin-priorities" is installed. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant