Submitted by Luc de Louw (not verified) on Tue, 2010/09/07 - 08:10.
I'm hitting the same problem as you do and lots of RHEL users do.
Red Hat should switch to a life cycle model like Next-release +5years. With such a model one does not care if RHEL6 appears in 2010 or 2011.
As you mentioned correctly, the time between RHEL releases slowed down from 18 months to almost three years. Hopefully this slow down will at least stop, otherwise RHEL7 will appear in ~2014
Better life cycle model
I'm hitting the same problem as you do and lots of RHEL users do.
Red Hat should switch to a life cycle model like Next-release +5years. With such a model one does not care if RHEL6 appears in 2010 or 2011.
As you mentioned correctly, the time between RHEL releases slowed down from 18 months to almost three years. Hopefully this slow down will at least stop, otherwise RHEL7 will appear in ~2014
Again: Red Hat needs to switch to the model "Next-release +5years" like I wrote in an article ealier this yes: http://blog.delouw.ch/2010/02/28/where-the-heck-is-rhel6/