On 12/9/20 6:42 PM, James Pearson wrote:
Scott Dowdle>
Q13 is against the statement that stream is ahead of RHEL, if RHEL is built on top of stream, there must be a stream to do the last 5 years of RHEL8.
While, for some reason, you draw that conclusion, they have clearly stated that is not the case. The last 5 years gets no package rebasing nor new feature as it shifts from Full Support mode to Maintenance mode. In Maintenance mode they may do some hardware enablement as necessary but the bulk is just applying security and critical bug fixes. Stream is for only for the Full Support phase where new features are being added.
That hasn't always been the case with previous EL versions - e.g. Firefox with EL6 went from ESR 68 to ESR 78 only 10 weeks ago - which was just before EL6 reached Maintenance EOL ...
James Pearson
And the high-quality QA killed sound in the process https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17767