On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Troy Dawson wrote:

> On 06/16/2011 04:32 PM, Jon Peatfield wrote:
>>  On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Denice wrote:
>> 
>> >  For those interested in esoteric data, I've extracted SL release
>> >  announcements from the mailing lists and have recorded them in a
>> >  spreadsheet.  I have used mailing list archives which I saved, so
>> >  the data may not be complete or entirely accurate.
>> > 
>> >  See:
>> >    http://trshare.triumf.ca/~deatrich/all/sl/
>>
>>  I see that x.6 releases seem to take longer than other point releases.
>>
>>  I suppose that this may be because of how TUV makes changes during a
>>  life-cycle e.g. that the x.6 release is their last chance to sneak in
>>  support for new-hardware which then makes things harder for the sl wizards
>>  to beat into shape...
>>
>>     -- Jon
>
> SL 5.6 is late for two reasons
>
> 1 - We had RHEL 6.0 (a major update), RHEL 5.6 and RHEL 4.9 all come out in a 
> short period of time.
> 2 - The installer gave us trouble.

I didn't mean to imply that it (or any release) was late.  Sorry if it 
sounded like I was meaning that.

  -- Jon