On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 11/04/2016 04:38 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > As a heads up RHEL 7.3 is released: > > <snip> > > 1. Is CentOS-7.3 done yet? Answer: NO! > > And it is NOT CentOS-7.3 .. it is CentOS-7 (1611) based on RHEL-7.3 > Sources. The main tree will be labeled '7.3.1611' on the mirrors (along > side 7.0.1406 and 7.1.1503, and 7.2.1511, all of which are already there) > > Obligatory objection to this version numbering scheme: Deviating from RHEL in such a basic way is crazy, dumb, stupid, annoying, wrong, etc, etc. There, done. 2. When will it be done? > a. Short Answer: No idea :) (when it is done!) > > b. Long Answer: We normally have CR out 7-14 days after a RHEL-7 > release. We normally have the full tree and ISOs out 14-28 days after > the CR is out. > > Complicating this particular release, we have our annual CentOS Board > Meeting (face to face) in Paris next week and I get on airplane(s) from > Texas to Paris on Monday 9/7/2016, so there will be one full wasted day > there. Obviously the rest of the team will also be traveling to the > meeting as well. > > I will try to tweet updates (@JohnnyCentOS) and post updates here > throughout the build period. > > Currently we are building gcc/glibc and modifying the packages that need > mods and calculating the build order for the SRPM package set. There > seem to be 602 SRPMs that need to be rebuilt on first look. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu