On 07/26/2011 02:07 PM, Mike Burger wrote: >> But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering >> effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new >> deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by >> NOT supporting such explicitly, the upstream avoids much >> support and engineering load. > > Quite simply, because the customer base, which is paying the upstream for > support, is requesting that such a process be supported. And this would be a sensible argument, were it not being made on the CentOS list. Folks here aren't paying anyone anything. This is more like an extension of the Fedora community, in a way -- free testers and freeloaders. Big deal. Red Hat doesn't *need* to do anything for us, come to think of it they're already doing quite a bit, so I see no point in complaining. -Iwao