On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 09:59, Atul Chitnis wrote: > On 26 Mar 2003, Peter Bowen wrote: > > > Clearly only Red Hat will be able to answer this until March 31, but you > > can probably get some idea by looking at what the last rawhide released > > before the announcement looked like, and what rawhide looks like today. > > I would assume RHL9 is somewhere in the middle. > > I wish it were so, but if you remember the final Beta of RHL 8, it was > quite a shock to see that some of the bugs *fixed* in Betas were *present* > in the released 8.0. I suspect that RH actually cuts Gold long before > the final Beta (I would, if I was them - the Gold needs to be tested to > death before it ships, or HP and IBM would probably skin RH ;-). > > The final Beta did run reliably, but as I mentioned above, it is entirely > possible that Phoebe 3 was actually a bit ahead of the game.
I'm sure that Red Hat Linux 8.0 Gold Master was cut well after the last beta was released. If you look at the ISO image they released carefully, you will see it was cut on Sept 10, 2002. Once the RHL9 ISOs are released I'm guessing you will find they were cut after the last Phoebe beta. Any bugs the were fixed in a beta, but present in the release, are regressions, rather than old packages. The way Red Hat appears to do community (RHL) releases appears to be very similar to how many people do software development. The have a tree with branches. The trunk is visible to us as RawHide. Betas are essentially tags on the trunk, while the releases are branches. It is from these branches that errata are built. While this is probably not exactly how they handle it internally, I think it is fairly close. Thanks. Peter -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
