Quoting Connie Sieh <csieh at fnal.gov>: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > Quoting Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>: > > > >> hi Guys, > >> > >> On 11/10/2010 07:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > >>> Last time there was only one build queue, so if 5.6 and 6 come out at the > >> same > >>> time, they will have to choose which one gets attention first. CentOS > >> doesn't > >>> have the multi-million dollar infrastructure to support multiple > >> simultaneous > >>> releases. > >> > >> Just a quick note here - the centos buildsystem, as used for centos4 and > >> 5 has 8 builder 'threads'. So there is a fairly good potential for rapid > >> builds. > >> > >> Having said that, were not going to use those for centos6, we have a 6 > >> node dedicated builder service that will get used for this. > >> > >> Over the next few days I'll post details on how you guys can keep track > >> of whats going on. I'll also post some details on how everyone can get > >> involved and help. > >> > >> Exciting times for sure :) > > > > This is very exciting. This also creates a tremendous amount of work for > the > > CentOS team. I for one would like to thank the CentOS team for their > continued > > efforts as well as thanking them in advance for all the work that will go > into > > building CentOS 6. You have my utmost respect and appreciation. > > > > Barry > We should also thank RedHat for if no RedHat then no CentOS. Absolutely. Red Hat does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting to produce RHEL, without which there would be no CentOS. Red Hat also gets paid pretty well to do so, and unless I am mistaken the CentOS team does not. In any case, I appreciate the work of Red Hat and the CentOS team. Barry