[CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/15/2011 09:59 AM, R - elists wrote:
> 
> Eero,
> 
> that is great, as long as you consider and actually donate to CentOS
> regularly
> 
> statistically, most people that download or use CentOS, do not donate.
> 


Money is not the real issue. It is time, and more importantly trust.

We can not just give out the ability to compile and sign packages that
go into a main CentOS distribution to every Tom, Dick or Harry who might
know a thing or two about compiling packages.

The fact of the matter is, building the entire distribution and making
sure everything is linked against the correct libraries and that it
matches up with upstream is something that takes almost as long to check
as it does to do correctly ... so throwing more bodies at it does not
really help that much.  The order the packages are built in is important
... and now with several versions of different packages (like samba and
samba3, postgresql and postgresql84, etc.) in the same tree, it becomes
even that much harder to get this right.

Then there is the control of the keys that sign the packages and access
to the infrastructure one would need in order to push packages, etc.  We
must vet the people who we would give this kind of access to.  We have
to know them and trust them before they can have that kind of access.

As I said before, Oracle has not had their stuff released for very long
and while Scientific Linus has released some Alpha/Beta stuff along the
way, they also have not released 5.6 or 6.0 either.  This is not easy.
It takes time.

We will get both of these out as soon as we can.  Trust me, we would
rather they were released than not.


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