On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 5:31 PM Troy Dawson tdawson@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM Neal Gompa ngompa13@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 1:38 PM Troy Dawson via devel devel@lists.centos.org wrote:
This is my last call to see if anyone wants to be part of a CentOS
Rollup SIG.
The SIG would rollup all of the "stuff" (images, repos, packages,
documentation, etc...) from all the CentOS SIGs, along with the the corresponding CentOS Stream and EPEL releases, once a quarter.
We could put all of that in AWS space, and leave it there for a
period of time.
Some people brought it up last year, but when I went to start the
SIG, nobody said anything.
If nobody wants to have or participate in this SIG, I'm totally fine
dropping it.
I'd be interested in helping out here. :)
After today's discussion at the Board meeting, about not having so many
specialized SIG's, it got me wondering about the Rollup SIG.
Would these rollup's be considered an "Image", and would it fit within
the Alternative Images SIG's goals?
Do we want to create another SIG with the exact same people, doing
similar work?
Well, the Rollup is a different functional concern: it creates the aggregate that can be consumed and published reliably to things like the website (where this is kind of painful at the moment).
It also is much more expansive: it is images, repos with packages, and machine-readable metadata for all this stuff. You're basically making super-composes. These super-composes can be leveraged to improve how we publish artifacts for users to get on the website, among other things.
I do not currently see a place for it to exist among existing SIGs. And the existing Alternative Images has more people, and it's entirely possible the rollup SIG would have different people over time too.
If anything, it's probably more of an infra type SIG than a developer type SIG.
You have very good points. Let's make a SIG