Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
2008/10/11 Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora(a)strg-alt-entf.org>:
> Not having publicly available SRPMs for the beta versions (meaning
> available via public ftp) might be another reason.
I thought the SRPMS were available, as Scientific Linux uses the
public ones to build their Betas.
Scientific builds Betas from the *released* version, not from the RHEL beta
versions. So maybe we should come to terms with "what does Beta mean" ...
I thought it was more a level of priority. CentOS is a volunteer
project with a lot of costs shouldered by the developers. There is
usually a shortage of diskspace, slow net links to various build
machines spread around the world, the fact that various devs have full
time jobs (there is no full-time build manager like Fedora and SciLin
have), and various other items. Any of which puts making betas a lower
priority than dealing with current issues.
Sure, that also comes into play.
Ralph