[CentOS] CentOS-announce before mirrors ready?

Sat May 23 16:14:41 UTC 2009
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM,  <centos-announce-request at centos.org> wrote:
> Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to
>        centos-announce at centos.org
>
<snip>
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>   1. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 i386 pidgin     Update
>      (Karanbir Singh)
>   2. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 pidgin   Update
>      (Karanbir Singh)
>   3. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 freetype Update
>      (Karanbir Singh)
>   4. CESA-2009:1061 Important CentOS 5 i386 freetype   Update
>      (Karanbir Singh)

Just received the above.  Ran yum update:

[mhr at mhrichter ~]$ sudo yum update
Password:
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.cogentcloud.com
 * updates: mirrors.versaweb.com
 * extras: mirrors.easynews.com
kbs-CentOS-Extras                                        |  951 B     00:00
base                                                     | 1.1 kB     00:00
updates                                                  |  951 B     00:00
extras                                                   | 1.1 kB     00:00
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

I've noticed this more and more over the last few months, especially
since 5.3 came out, and I'm wondering:

Are these announcements being sent before the mirrors are getting updated?

I know what's involved in releasing and announcing updates and such
(done that enough!), so I'm not complaining, but I am curious.  The
last several of these I had to wait 6-8 hours or more before the
updates were yum-able.

Of course, it would be nice, from an end-user's perspective, if the
updates were available by the time the announcement went out, and ISTR
it used to be this way....

Anyway, to the CentOS team: great job of keeping us up-to-date,
especially on security issues.  This is just a nit, of mine, no
worries....

Thanks!

mhr