[CentOS] RHEL 7.3 released

Fri Nov 4 17:16:15 UTC 2016
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 09:35:41AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> On Fri, November 4, 2016 9:29 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 11/04/2016 09:15 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> >> That's all well and good, but how about you actually include the minor
> >> number AND the release date?  I.e. 7.3-1104 for CentOS 7.3 released
> >> today,
> >> for example.   I'm all for the SIGs to keep track of their own
> >> upstreams,
> >> but surely there's a better way to do this that doesn't annoy the heck
> >> out
> >> of us Joe-Blows out here.  A lot of us don't have the time (or
> >> inclination)
> >> to deal with oddball version discrepancies when there really doesn't
> >> need
> >> to be.
> >>
> >> I mean, there are dozens of Ubuntu distros and they all use the same
> >> basic
> >> versioning schemes.  (Maybe not a completely fair example, but still.)
> >>  Isn't the idea with CentOS to be a method of generating a larger
> >> testing
> >> base and interest in RHEL and it's products?  If not, that's how I've
> >> always seen it, incorrect or not.
> >
> > I said on the tree it will be 7.3.1611 .. and I don't get to make the
> > call on this.
> >
> > This was battle was fought two years ago.
> >
> > We don't have to like it.
> >
> > We also don't need to fight it again.
> >
> > I do what I am told, and I have been told what to do ...
> 
> I for one am perfectly happy with whatever scheme you guys follow. And I
> am really grateful to you for the great job you are doing! As IMHO all of
> us should who enjoy using results of your work (and RedHat, and all open
> source projects - if I go deeper) without helping much ourselves (I don't
> count mirrors some of us maintain as a big effort).
> 
> Valeri
> 

Amen!


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