[CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

[S.Tindall]

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 00:10 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
> R P Herrold wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ned Slider wrote:
> > 
> >> Rather than dumping *even more work* on the core CentOS project (who are
> >> already clearly struggling to provide even the core distro 
> >> at present), ...
> > 
> > It may be clear to Ned, but is not the case.
> > 
> 
> Then we disagree. Others can look and judge for themselves :)

+1

> > I wish people not in the know would not purport to 
> > characterize CentOS internals, but speculation is a human 
> > trait, I guess
> > 
> 
> Bingo! That's the whole point Russ - members of the Community don't know 
> what's going on with *their* Community Enterprise OS because there is no 
> dissemination of information.

+1

> What I *do* "know" is that 5.3 took ~10 weeks to release, and before 
> that 4.7 took ~7 weeks. We are already 6 weeks into the 4.8 release 
> cycle with no news of how it's progressing or when a release is to be 
> expected. Prior to this, update sets typically took ~4 weeks to release.

+1

> Struggling? Maybe/maybe not. Struggling within a reasonable time frame - 
> depends on your definition of reasonable and time frame I guess. Perhaps 
> this is where we disagree above.
> 
> Anyway, as I said previously, I would rather see the CentOS Project 
> concentrate on the core product and do a really good job on that (i.e, a 
> move closer to the old 4 week release lag than the current 10 week 
> release lag), and I would much rather see this than effort diluted by 
> taking on a contrib repo.

+1

Steve