CentOS Project Release Times

[Posted June 7, 2012 by ris]

Johnny Hughes explains the steps the project has taken to address lagging point releases. "We now have corporate sponsors who sponsor 2 CentOS Developers to work on the CentOS Project full time. That means that we now have 80 paid hours per week of CentOS Project time where we get do nothing but CentOS Project related work. The sponsors do not ask for anything in return, just faster CentOS updates by the current CentOS developers who get to make the CentOS Project their daily work priority. This should be huge in preventing future delays."

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 2:30 UTC (Fri) by yarikoptic (guest, #36795) [Link]

Larries, is that you? ;-)

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 12:58 UTC (Fri) by abacus (guest, #49001) [Link] (3 responses)

So that means there is a company that prefers paying CentOS developers over buying RHEL licenses ?

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Posted Jun 8, 2012 13:24 UTC (Fri) by acobar (guest, #74253) [Link] (2 responses)

Perhaps, if you are a big ISP it can make sense.

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 14:32 UTC (Fri) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link] (1 responses)

Or if you are shipping hardware / images to customers.

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Posted Jun 8, 2012 16:45 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

There are electronics companies running massive farms (tens of thousands of servers) with CentOS to verify their chip designs. They're still paying EDA companies for licenses, but they aren't paying Red Hat. If, instead of paying several million dollars to Red Hat, they kick in a couple of hundred K to pay for a CentOS developer or two, they save money.

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 18:43 UTC (Fri) by miguelzinho (guest, #40535) [Link] (6 responses)

I think that Red Hat could create a very cheap subscription plan for the CentOS crowd and have more costumers. They use CentOS because they want the quality and stability of RHEL but don't need the support.

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 18:47 UTC (Fri) by geek (guest, #45074) [Link] (5 responses)

what would they be paying for then if not support?

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 8, 2012 19:10 UTC (Fri) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Prompt updates. Maybe have a tier with RHN system management and a tier without?

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Posted Jun 8, 2012 19:59 UTC (Fri) by miguelzinho (guest, #40535) [Link] (3 responses)

Having access to security updates and the point releases of RHEL directly from Red Hat sounds good to me when you already have a team of senior sysadmins in house.

People are paying for the job of striping RHEL branding and releasing it, IMHO.

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Posted Jun 9, 2012 13:43 UTC (Sat) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link] (2 responses)

RedHat already sells "self support" licenses which only entitle you to updates. You still have to pay per system / vm.

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 14, 2012 11:57 UTC (Thu) by nigelm (subscriber, #622) [Link] (1 responses)

I just went and looked at licensing for RH Self Support licenses. After getting back off the floor, I decided that throwing money at Centos looks like a good deal.

CentOS Project Release Times

Posted Jun 24, 2012 5:07 UTC (Sun) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link]

Does self support allow you to file bugs with red hat? If so, that is a solid benefit which isn't clear on their site.