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