On 02/05/2014 02:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Andras Horvath <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I know it's kinda too early to ask such thing, but based on TUV practices in the past, could someone tell which month we could expect the release of version 7? Based on that assumption, we could make something up about the possibility of the SL 7 release date.
>>
>> The question arised to me because I need to migrate away from a system on one of my workstation, and since I used Gnome 3 on Fedora for some time and I'm fond of it, I wouldn't want to go now with version 6, so I was thinking to pay for a standalone subscription for RHEL 7 and start using the beta right away. At least I could test and get familiar with it until SL 7 arrives.  (Any hint on how stable it might be? :)
>>
>> Can we say, we can expect SL 7 before August? (adding up an estimated time from RHEL beta now to RHEL release + SL buld and test)
> 
> As you pointed it out yourself, the answer largely depends on when
> RHEL 7 comes out. In the case of RHEL 6, it took about 6 months from
> the beta to the GA release. But I doubt even Red Hat knows exactly
> when RHEL 7 will be released.

Also, don't forget about the recent announcement[1] that there is a
possibility that SL7 is going to be a CentOS variant. Which means we may
have to wait for CentOS 7 before the SL team really digs in and makes SL
7. That isn't for certain yet, I am just thinking that if it does go
that way then there might be a greater time frame between RHEL7 and SL7.
The point being, who knows how long it could be really. I bet even the
core devs of RHEL/Scientific/CentOS don't have a good time frame yet;
probably just est target dates which could easily slip.

[1] See Connie Sieh's post in the email thread "Centos / Redhat
announcement and Scientific Linux update"
"The anticipated release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 presents an
opportunity to consider forming/joining a CentOS Special Interest Group
and producing Scientific Linux 7 as a CentOS variant. ... This is only
being evaluated for Scientific Linux version 7."


My advice is to just test the RHEL 7 beta while it is in public beta and
go as far as you can with it. The more feedback now means a better
product at release.