On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:22 AM Phil Perry pperry@elrepo.org wrote:
On 02/02/2021 05:03, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
On Monday, February 1, 2021 4:57 PM, Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
The other stuff is in Fedora under the Fedora CI banner.
That is fine but the messaging of what, where, when and how of Stream has been extremely poor. I can't find a reference to that on the CentOS blog or FAQ.
In fact, the Karsten Wade blog post was worded in a way that implied these tests were already being applied to Stream.
That will have much more of an impact when CentOS Stream 9 opens in three months.
Hopefully someone can walk me through this part.
So, we have been told the life cycle of Stream is 5 years.
Stream 8 was released September 24, 2019 so a period of 5 years should go at least to September 2024.
We will have both a Stream 8 and a Stream 9 from May 2021 to September 2024? And then Stream 9 will continue to May 2026?
I believe the 5 year starting point is from the release of RHEL 8 (e.g, May 2019), not the release of Stream 8. i.e, Stream runs for the 5 year Full Support period and ends when the underlying (downstream) product enters it's Maintenance Support phase.
Yes. That means the clock on CentOS Stream 9 starts when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 is GA (which would be in 2022). Thus, CentOS Stream 9 will be around for *six* years, not five.