[CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

Thu May 12 15:55:44 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Craig White wrote:
> On May 12, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ron Blizzard wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Mark Bradbury <mark.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Do you expect the C6.0 -> C6.1 differences to be more complex, or less
>>>>> complex than the C5.5 -> C5.6 differences ?
>>>>>
>>>>> And given that C5.6 took 3 months, are there any reasons why C6.1 would
>>>>> take no more than 1 month ?
>>>> Get over yourself Dag ... for goodness sake.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why? seems like a valid point to me.
>> But at that time there should only be one point release on the table,
>> instead of two point releases and one major release. Is everyone
>> forgetting that 4.9, 5.6 and 6.0 were all out at the same time?
> ----
> I think you are confusing overlap with simultaneous.
> 
>  • 2011-02-16: Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9
>  • 2011-01-13: Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
>  • 2010-11-10: Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
> 
> 2 months elapsed from release of 6.0 before 5.6 and more than another month before 4.9
> 
> Hardly qualifies at the same time unless you consider 3 months to be essentially the same time.
> 
But you need to also calculate time elapsed between date of Distribution 
Release and date of release of SRPMS for 6.0. Am I correct that it took 
a month for SRPMS to be released?

Ljubomir