Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Blackwell
Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread John Doe
From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:57:42 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: When someone asked “When will **CentOS 5.4 come out??** The answer is, “When

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/10/09 09:38, Ian Blackwell wrote: Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No, that's the post # in the thread, of which

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Ian Blackwell
Jake Shipton wrote: On 16/10/09 09:38, Ian Blackwell wrote: Jake Shipton wrote: Post #148. You count your posts? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos No, that's the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Niki Kovacs
Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do you prefer

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Niki Kovacs schrieb: Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Majian
First I'd like to make sure I am not complaining about this delay between the RHEL and CentOS releases per se. I did not help in any way to make it happen faster and usually I don't mind having a three weeks gap between them. But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: It's good to have a fixed date to work towards. Otherwise, you get feature-creep, where more and more stuff goes into the release but never stabilizes. I don't think feature-creep is an issue in CentOS. I think the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/16/2009 05:25 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Niki Kovacs schrieb: Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/15/2009 07:12 AM, Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, mbneto mbn...@gmail.com mailto:mbn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Phil Schaffner
Majian wrote on 10/16/2009 06:57 AM: ... But I've noticed that we had two security related kernel updates from RHEL since the RHEL 5.3 release and there is no word on when it will be released or why is it taking so long. So hope it would release soon ~~~ The -164 kernel has been in updates

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Soon means soon ... we have to get the tree stable on many servers before we can make it available. This stuff takes time. I think this is the major source of this latest flurry about the release date. The twitter posting from KB said soon and then things went quiet for 2 days without any

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Toby Bluhm
You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked, keystrokes typed, bathroom

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked, keystrokes

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:13:21 -0400 Toby Bluhm t...@alltechmedusa.com wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread John Plemons
You know if this was a new X-Box, or PlayStation, we might be sleeping in a tent next to the front of the store selling them wait for the store to be open. Or sleeping in line at the New Opening Release of Star Wars 12 Return of the O/S... We are all a little bit of a geek and this stuff

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Marcan
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:28:11 +0100 Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.gar...@googlemail.com wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Berger
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: Someone is obviously sarcasm-challenged today. But there is a middle ground for people who would like a best-effort idea of what to expect. and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer -- Russ herrold

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Jake Shipton
On 16/10/09 14:13, Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: Someone is obviously sarcasm-challenged today. But there is a middle ground for people who would like a best-effort idea of what to expect. and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread John R Pierce
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Toby Bluhm
Look, it's not me that wants it. It's . . . it's the servers, OKAY? I think they've got a jones on for 5.4. I walk past the cpu room and hear trashing and growling. I look inside and it's all quiet and normal and all that - but I *know* something is going on in there. They're emanating a

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: R P Herrold wrote: and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer It's also the sort of thing people in a community try to do for each other without needing legal terms for enforcement. You raise a new

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: and 'best-efforts' is a SLA concept -- if an SLA is needed, you already know the answer It's also the sort of thing people in a community try to do for each other without needing legal terms for enforcement. You raise a new argument, an orthogonal strawman, as is your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread MHR
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Soon means soon ... we have to get the tree stable on many servers before we can make it available.  This stuff takes time. Take all the time you need, as always. We all appreciate the great work you folks do, and if

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: No one questions your effort on the technical side - or has a right to. Why is it so hard to share what is going on? I began publishing the pre-centos cAos (or fedora.us) buildsystem in February 2002 under the GPL (then v2) and updated it from time

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread mbneto
Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? - Regards. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
mbneto wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? Just relax and wait, this is a _volunteer_ based project. Want a release date? Go pay for RHEL.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, mbneto mbn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? - Regards. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Jeremy Rosengren
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: mbneto wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? Just relax and wait, this is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 15/10/09 14:41, Jeremy Rosengren wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br mailto:mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: mbneto wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread John Plemons
Many of the questions are due to ignorance from many of us not versed in what it take s to come up with the release. For Version 5.5 when we get that far, if some one could work up a quick and dirty web page checklist showing the basic progress and what steps are left to bring the release to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Jeremy Rosengren wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br mailto:mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: mbneto wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Drew Weaver
Jeremy Rosengren wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho mig...@ic.unicamp.br mailto:mig...@ic.unicamp.br wrote: mbneto wrote: Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Drew Weaver wrote: Just relax and wait, this is a _volunteer_ based project. Want a release date? Go pay for RHEL. This response is just as annoying as the request for an update. -- j +1 Annoying and rude. This might be why the Linux community as a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread mbneto
Hi Miguel, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it seems that the 'all or nothing' way of thinking is more common that I expected.Anyone that read my post can see that I did not use 'why is it taking so long?' or similar comments that suggests that I am somewhat angry or anything. I was just

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Gilbert Sebenste wrote: This whole thread and these answers are uncalled for. All of them, except for the original above at the top. But virtually guaranteed for any process that isn't transparent. Someone must enjoy it. Maybe the anticipation is supposed to build up excitement. --

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-15 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Dear All, If someone asks a question such as When is Centos 5.4 coming out bare in mind that it may be because they genuinely want to know when it's coming out, and feel that somehow, they have not been privy to that information. To me, I see CentOS as a polished professional product given

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: But virtually guaranteed for any process that isn't transparent. Someone must enjoy it. Maybe the anticipation is supposed to build up excitement. Thanks for the jab. It is fun to be punched. If there were not false steps along any path, one would

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: When someone asked “When will **CentOS 5.4 come out??** The answer is, “When it is good and ready”, and when they ask “Why/What does that mean?”, ask them to Google “*open source distribution release cycle*”. That should keep them busy for long enough for me/you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Les Mikesell
R P Herrold wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: But virtually guaranteed for any process that isn't transparent. Someone must enjoy it. Maybe the anticipation is supposed to build up excitement. Thanks for the jab. It is fun to be punched. It's not fun on the other side of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: When someone asked “When will **CentOS 5.4 come out??** The answer is, “When it is good and ready”, and when they ask “Why/What does that mean?”,  ask them to Google “*open source

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: It's not fun on the other side of this fence either.  Being kept in the dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a solid distribution. If I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread aurfalien
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in the dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a solid

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-15 Thread Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho
Les Mikesell wrote: I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. So what do you suggest? Release the OS with known problems, just to satisfy a date and the hysteria

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread RedShift
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in the dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-15 Thread aurfalien
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in the dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a solid distribution.