The lack of communication (and abrupt nature of what little there has been) has led me to consider moving away from CentOS this release.

I'm a huge fan of the project, and have used it on dozens of live systems both privately and in business, but any community driven effort that seems hell-bent on actively discouraging community effort ("don't bother helping, it's quicker for us to just do it than train you" - ?!) beggars belief, and as for the treatment of the guy who was offering hardware to the project the other week, well...

I learned Linux on Red Hat derivative and re-packaged distributions and really thought CentOS had it right, but I thought the C stood for 'Community' and there doesn't seem to be a lot of that at the moment. I was even ready to try and help out with re-packaging and QA when I saw CentOS 6 was taking some time, but the way the 'community' treated everyone that offered I didn't want the grief!

Maybe it's time to trade my RHCSA in, and put the time I had spent training for RHCE into learning 'Ubuntu Professional'.