Distribution quote of the week

It is a truly heady experience, after so many years of talking about the need to properly support multiarch in Debian and Ubuntu, to see support for cross-installation of packages come to fruition. If you've talked to me any time in the past couple of weeks and noticed it's a little hard to get me to change the subject, well, that's why.

Claiming that the CentOS dev team does not need help building and that the build process has not become more complicated would appear to be untrue. But those of us on the outside have to guess at this because there is absolutely no transparency about the build process. All we've been told about the 5.6 delays are that there were "niggles". That's great -- exactly what niggles? What's blown up? Why is none of this public? THAT is what people are becoming increasingly discontent about -- a Community project that does not have any real interaction with the community. Too much is happening behind closed doors, and while I don't expect anything to change for 5.6 or 6.0 (or 6.1 at this point), there needs to be work done toward rectifying this when everyone is not busy as hell with new releases.