On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 17:52 -0400, Ashley Penney wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > <[email protected]> wrote: > > RHEL6 beta1 and beta2 were released on April 14 and Jun 22, > respectively. > > When can we expect to see the RHEL 6 General Availability > release? > > > > --Doc Savage > > Fairview Heights, IL > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Robin Price II <[email protected]> > wrote: > Sometime in 2010.
> While I understand the reluctance for Redhat to commit to any kind of > release date I find their refusal to provide information to the > community more and more frustrating recently. We all understand that > picking a hard date can backfire but there is no reason for Redhat to > make the process so murky. They should be keeping customers informed > all the way through development with blog postings and other > information as to how things are shaping up. > > > What is the bug count at? How many are serious? Is 2010 still > viable? What are their frustrations and what went well? Why has > Redhat withdrawn from the public. Now they only seem willing to send > me endless emails about big physical events. Can't they find a single > person to act as an information source for those of us who can't > attend these events? > > > There is no good reason to be so secretive and generally emails like > this get responses about talking to your account person. That's > backwards, I shouldn't have to chase someone to get information. This > is 2010 and Redhat is built on open software and open standards, they > should try turning a flashlight on themselves and let the rest of us > inside to a far bigger degree. Thank you Ashley. Mine is not an idle question. While a major release may represent task completion for Red Hat, it's just the beginning for us customers. I get one chance a year to submit my budget requirements, and our green eye shade guild demands hard dates rather than "D+60 days" in its line item narrative descriptions. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
