Hi Johnny, Are the build systems you guys are working on available to the public? Checked in somewhere we can check out and/or potentially contribute to? cheers, Masoud On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 03/03/2014 08:23 AM, Tom McManus wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Apologies if this topic is covered elsewhere. Will CentOS wait for the > > release of RHEL7 or will it start work on betas > > The CentOS team is building the Beta packages so that we have the > packages available for future use, can find any issues building them, > and look for branding issues, etc. ... however we feel that it is > counterproductive to release anything to the public. > > The reasons are: > > 1. RHEL 7 Beta is free to download and anyone who wants to get it can > do so. The CentOS team highly recommends any interested parties download > and test RHEL 7 Beta following Red Hat's announcement and guidelines. > > 2. RHEL 7 beta is "beta quality" and Red Hat wants the public to > download and test it and provide feedback to get issues fixed before the > actually RHEL 7.0 GA release. If you want to make CentOS-7 better, > download and test RHEL-7 Beta and provide feedback to Red Hat to fix as > many issues as possible before they release. > > 3. The CentOS team feels that adding potential problems from our > building of packages that may not be present in the released RHEL 7 Beta > is counterproductive and possibly dilutes the upstream beta process. > > 4. The CentOS team does not want to act as the middle man to the actual > reporting of incidents that might happen if we release a rebuild of RHEL > 7 Beta. That is, people report things to us about our beta that should > have instead been reported to Red Hat and those issues somehow get lost > in the process. > > ===== > > So, while we are not planning to release a rebuild of the Beta's at this > time, we will be building and saving beta packages and creating our > build processes/system to ensure we can get CentOS-7.0 built and > released quickly. Any packages we get built during these processes that > do not change are things we don't have to build later. Any problems we > solve, even for packages that change during the beta process, may be > relevant to newer packages that come out in the beta process, so will > still likely help us. > > I can not stress it enough ... CentOS users who want to help should > download and test the RHEL 7 Betas and provide feedback for any problems > to Red Hat so CentOS-7.0 can happen faster and be better quality when we > release it. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140304/1322901a/attachment-0005.html>