On 04/01/2011 09:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > Sorry, folks. I wish our release developers well, and hope that they > can open up their processes to allow much needed community involvment. > But I've hopped to Scientific Linux and find it much more usable due > to their willingness to publish updates even without the entire new > release bundled, and the much timelier updates from the upstream > vendor. php53 and bind97 are directly available for their verison 5.x > release, and their version 6.0 has now taken over my testing > environments. This makes EPEL's version of drupal, and various Samba 4 > testing accessible, and I don't have to waste my time on backports > that will be replaced by a release that is further, and further, and > further behind. > > Perhaps in the future the configuration of the build and patch > environments can be opened up, or the patching going on for the > package rebundling can be published in just the way people with RHEL > would publish their kernel patches, rather than presenting merely the > results. But such ideas have been rejected as unnecessary, and even > the suggestion was rejected with hostility. > > I know very well how much work such projects take, and regret that I > was unable to assist further. My tweaks and bundles will now be going > over to Fedora and Scientific Linux, rather than here or in the > developer's list. > Big issue I saw with Scientific Linux was a lack of commitment to long term support matching what RedHat and Centos provide. My $.02 Steve Clark -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110403/cdd12fff/attachment-0002.html>