[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7.2 ETA

[Jim Perrin]

On 12/09/2015 07:08 AM, Brian Lalor wrote:
> When can we expect 7.2? RHEL's been out for about a month, right? Any beta ISOs available in the meantime?
> 


To lay things out a bit:

1. The packages need to be built.
Everyone assumes this is fairly straightforward but there are
occasionally roadblocks. One example would be m2crypto
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287164) where the tests
fail because of an expired cert. We bump into these, figure out how best
to deal with them, and move on.

Other examples would be debranding changes which require additional
investigation and patching. This is fairly common around point-release
time as this is usually when new features are added or versions get
bumped (gnome 3.8 to 3.14)

2. Once the packages are built we do some basic smoke testing (our
t_functional tests) to make sure things work as expected, and release
them to CR. Sometimes the tests need to be updated because of a package
function change.

3. The iso builds generally require the most work and testing, as well
as being the most time-consuming. Anaconda changed rather substantially
with this release to accommodate Atomic installs, as well as adding
OpenSCAP features.


This process would not go as smoothly, or as quickly without the folks
on our QA team who volunteer their time, hardware, and experience. They
deserve a large thank you for their efforts.


TL;DR
Be patient, it won't be long now.



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