On 12/20/20 9:32 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:
Red Hat never claimed that CentOS Stream will be just as hardened as CentOS. They never claimed it will get the same process. Doing so would make RHEL obsolete, so it's not even an intelligent thing for them to claim. This is more like wishful thinking.
I think they have, repeatedly. That's now I interpret their statements:
"no one is rolling in packages here straight from a new Fedora version or from Rawhide. These changes are point release type changes. That is the type of changes you see from 8.2 to 8.3 or 7.8 to 7.9 ... not major changes."
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352374.html
"no, CentOS Stream isn't beta. Packages landing in Stream have already passed QA and gating."
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352383.html
Making a reliable distribution doesn't make RHEL obsolete. There's still a lot of value in an OS that is itself semantically versioned, and has paid support contracts.
There's no evidence to support the idea that CentOS Stream will be unreliable because a reliable system would compete with RHEL. And lots of evidence to the contrary, including the extent to which Red Hat publishes their work in a form usable to rebuild the distribution.