Re: Fastrack channels?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:12 -0400, Jay Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 14:35 +0200, Dirk Gfroerer wrote:
> > Obviously I missed the announcement for the Fastrack channels in RHN.
> > 
> > They seem to contain different bug fix Erratas. So are these channels to 
> > which I want to subscribe my production machines?
> 
> We need to clean up the communication around these channels, but
> basically they are previews of content which will be available in the
> next update.

Jay,

As I've requested of my TAM, please consider setting up email
notification outside of RHN similar to enterprise-watch-list.  RHN's
notifications are too slow to be any good.  When RHEL 4 U3 was released,
the errata emails came to enterprise-watch-list immediately, but I
received emails from RHN for my affected systems over a period of 2-4
days  :-(

I would appreciate your consideration in this matter.

Thank you.

/Brian/


>   So these are packages which have been through complete QA,
> are fully tested and we're making available to customers via RHN child
> channels.  If customers wish to consume these packages they may,
> otherwise they can wait until the follow-on update and consume them at
> that time.
> 
> Not all packages will go out in this fashion (we won't push the kernel
> and toolchain, for example because of the destabilizing nature of such a
> push) and any changes which are significant enough to warrant going
> through the beta period in order to flesh out will not be released via
> Fastrack.
> 
> A couple of other notes.  Pending there are packages available to push
> each week, we will push packages on Wednesdays so that folks can come to
> expect new packages on that day.  At most we will push 10 packages on a
> given day (5 for RHEL3 and 5 for RHEL4.)  We will sync RHEL3 and RHEL4
> pushes so that if a particular package goes out for RHEL3 and RHEL4 is
> impacted as well, we will push both in parallel.  Finally these packages
> are fully supported by Red Hat.  In the event of a security exploit, we
> will release fixes for both the base channel (what most people are
> subscribed to) as well as the Fastrack child channel.
> 
> All packages pushed into the child channel will become part of the
> follow-on release unless circumstances prevent (serious issues found
> with the package.)
> 
> Hope this helps explain things.
> 
> - jkt
> 
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