On 12/12/2013 09:13, James Hogarth wrote: > On 12 December 2013 15:32, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> On 12/11/2013 08:56, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> >>> Within CentOS, we are going to do a CentOS7Beta1 build to match the >>> release upsteam >> >> In the aftermath of the CentOS 6.0 trauma, I recall there being >> speculation that building the next major release wouldn't be as >> troublesome, for various reasons[*]. Did that turn out to be true? >> >> [*] a) Improved procedures, b) grand works that, done once, don't need >> to be done over again as long as upstream doesn't change the world >> again, etc. > > > Well seeing as we haven't had a major release since then it's hard to say > (although times for the point releases to come out have been markedly > short)... My assumption when asking is that they had already taken enough of a look at the RH7 beta to see if Red Hat had undone the hard work of getting CentOS 6 out the door.