[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-7 on x86_64

[Devin Reade]

--On Monday, July 07, 2014 04:38:34 PM -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> I'm waiting for 7.0.1, with all the upstream fixes that were missed.
>
>        mark "don't trust x.0 of anything"

Meh.

Normally, when putting things into production, I would agree with you.
However, as I recently commented to a client, paraphrasing somewhat:

  You're in a bind right now because in order to support your current
  business requirements you need to deploy more servers and the line
  of servers that you have running RHEL5 are no longer made. They have
  been replaced by a line that [for reasons I'm not getting into on
  the CentOS list but related to specific hardware configurations]
  will run RHEL6 but not RHEL5.  So while you've got a bit of timeline
  lee-way, waiting a long time is not an option.

  You can start deploying on RHEL6, but at this point your supported
  timeline is about half over.  RHEL7 is out which will about double the
  supported lifetime of the new systems, but you're understandably
  skittish about dot-zero version numbers.

  First mitigation:  RedHat does a pretty decent job of testing things
  before they release them.  There have been hiccoughs in the past, but
  (for the use case involved) they're few and far between.  No promises,
  but there's a good chance that 7.0.nothing will be just fine.

  Second mitigation: [The client] has a well defined lab/PoC environment,
  followed by a rigorous UAT environment before hitting production.
  And before that there is of course the hardware procurement schedule.
  By the time you're half way through your UAT even if RHEL isn't at
  7.1, it'll have a decent amount of time for post-7.0 patches to have
  come out.

  So unless there's required 3rd party software that isn't yet working
  on RHEL7 and for which you don't have a release timeline (or an acceptable
  release timeline), leapfrog over RHEL6 to RHEL7 and start building
  and testing your lab environment, and planning your UAT/production
  environments.  By the time UAT is done, you're ready to go.

s,RHEL,CentOS,g;

Of course, as I finish writing this I notice that you said "7.0.1"
and not "7.1".  So we may not be too far off on our perspectives
anyway.

Devin