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On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:04 -0400, Ashley Penney wrote: > I cannot wait for the RHEL6 beta considering how outdated things have > become over time. To be honest I wish Redhat was vastly more open > about the entire process For various reasons discussed by many officials prior, Red Hat does not discuss unreleased products. This has been standard, Red Hat policy. However, at Red Hat Summit in 2008 June, Red Hat officers did announce the extension of Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 4 and 5 lifecycles. Most specifically, this included an increase in Phase 1 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle, increasing the time period new features can be requested. Several explanations followed, including product development times. [Policy] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ Past Red Hat Summit Highlight (and even some Session) Videos: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2007/ http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/ http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/highlights/ > as I have a huge amount of planning to do in terms of release dates. > I need to block out time to slowly migrate and update our existing > servers to RHEL6 and considering the amount of testing that's going to > take it's frustrating in the extreme to have no idea when this is > going to hit beta, or even release. Even a 'we're 89% towards > release' would be appreciated at this time in terms of organization > from our side. Red Hat customers and clients should contact their sales, solutions architect (SA), technical account manager (TAM) or other Red Hat representative to discuss planning. In-a-nutshell: I do not let my customers/clients fly blind. ;) > Failing that, I wish Redhat would host official repos that updated > certain platforms (like Ruby and Python, for example) that played nice > with the system packages! For various reasons discussed by many officials prior, Red Hat approaches, policies, etc... are always geared towards Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and other considerations in Red Hat products. However, the Fedora Project does host the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). If it ships in Fedora, and does not conflict with a base Red Hat package, it's a candidate for EPEL. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL In-a-nutshell ... as I inform my customers/clients ... Anything Red Hat(R) ships, it supports. Anything Fedora(TM) can be done to meet anything else. ;) Several times I have found a package in Fedora Koji that is not built for Fedora's EPEL. And many times after contacting the maintainer/ packager, it was available in EPEL a short-time later. As far as "I wish Red Hat would host," please understand that the Red Hat(R) trademark doesn't need to be on something, for Red Hat to host, sponsor, fund and otherwise provide much (or even all) of it. -- Bryan P.S. I am a consultant. I am not in sales. I am not a sales engineer. I am not a Red Hat-only product specialist. I follow this list, answer questions off-list and make time for Red Hat customers/clients, on my own time, after hours and outside my travel and billable hours. If you are having trouble reaching or finding a Red Hat representative, please feel free to contact myself or anyone else you trust at a redhat.com address, or even the numbers available on Red Hat's site for many sales, support and other individuals. -- Bryan J Smith Senior Consultant Red Hat, Inc Professional Consulting http://www.redhat.com/consulting mailto:[email protected] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[email protected] (Blackberry/Red Hat-External) -------------------------------------------------------- You already know Red Hat as the entity dedicated to 100% no-IP-strings-attached, community software development. But do you know where CIOs rate Red Hat versus other software and services firms for their own, direct needs, year after year? http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
