[CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

Tue Apr 12 05:25:46 UTC 2011
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 12/04/11 00:03, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On 4/11/2011 5:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
>>>
>>>>> This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the
>>>>> processes involved in rebuilding RHEL. CentOS doesn't reverse-engineer
>>>>> anything, they simply rebuild the upstream sources. It's not rocket science.
>>>>
>>>> It's not simple...
>>>
>>> Which part isn't simple?
>>
>> The part where you guess why your build doesn't match the upstream binary.
>
> If it was simple, why would it take 86 days or 6 months ? I would like to
> have an answer to that. Either it is hard, and more people could help fix
> issues. Or it is simple and the CentOS developers have been slacking ?
>

In fairness, I did say it could be time consuming. I don't know what 
took 86 days.

> Anyone from the QA team interested to share some information on what
> happened during QA ?
>

The QA team are not permitted to comment on such matters as QA is a 
closed process.