Hi Troy, On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I see that rolling SL6 alpha releases are already available. Is there >> a time line on when stable or even beta releases for SL6 will be >> available? >> >> Thank you. >> > > Hi, > We almost have the alpha out, expect it later today. We're doing a few more > tweeks to the image build scripts. > At that point, it all depends on what you mean by stable. > ***skip to bottom for short answer*** > > We expect that *most* of the packages in os/Packages to remain the same. If > there are packages that just didn't build correct, they will be replaced. > > With SL6, we are trying one thing a little different. In the past, we > always put in the latest security and bugfix errata into the main package > area (i386/SL or i386/SL/RPMS). With SL6, we are trying to keep that area > (os/Packages) stable, and just have the packages that can with RHEL6 in > there. There are some exceptions of course, for those packages that we > change. But for the most part, that area should be stable. > We are then putting all the security and bugfix updates into the updates > area. > We are able to do this, because we have changed the way we are building the > installer. It is much more flexible, and is able to combine the two area's > easily. > And if it doesn't work out, we can always go back to the way we did it > before. > > Hmmm ... this is probably too much information, how about I answer your > question with a short reply. > > ***short answer*** > Currently, we don't have an estimate when we will be in a more stable beta > phase. but the rolling area should be more stable than in past releases. >
I read that as "stable enough to try it out on my new workstation this January". ;) Thanks to the entire SL team for all the great work. :) > Troy -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
