[CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

[MJang]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:36 -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:23 -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
> >> centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> >>> On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This sounds as if RH is responsible for not yet released CentOS 6 ?
> >>> What did I miss ? What changes do you talking about ?
> >> 
> >> AIUI: In previous releases, RH distributed source + patches. 
> >> Starting 
> >> 6.0 RH releases patched source.  This makes backing out a patch, or
> >> backporting patches from future development in Fedora (e.g.) far
> >> more nightmarish than before. 
> >> 
> >> Also AIUI, it appears the (undisclosed) RH build environment changed
> >> significantly, such that generating bit-for-bit identical binaries (a
> >> CentOS objective) requires mind-reading RH folks by CentOS folks (aka
> >> reverse-engineering the undisclosed RH build environment).
> >> 
> >> These two square wheels make the CentOS wagon a bit slower than
> >> before. 
> > 
> > I would appreciate an answer to one related question.
> > 
> > Will CentOS release CentOS 6.0 as a production release?
> > 
> > I see three possible answers: yes/no/TBD.
> 
> Answer 4: 
> This is not just an answer of 
> "yes it's a production release" 
> it's 
> "production releases are all that CentOS ever does."

Appreciate the clarification. I had thought that like SL, there would
have been a CentOS 6 beta. From my searches, it appears that I was
mistaken, there is no --public-- (or private?) CentOS 6 beta.

Thanks,
Mike