On 1/7/20 3:34 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 1/7/20 12:08 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 1/7/20 4:09 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
- CentOS Koji is pretty closed to a couple of folks in CentOS and Red
Hat.
There were a variety of reasons this was done initially.
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That's because until Stream existed, there wasn't really much of a way to give back that didn't make the project deviate from its core mission. We have absolutely taken contributions from the community in the past, but most of the fixes offered were to fix bugs we didn't "own".
I don't think it's *entirely* fair to say that the fixes offered weren't relevant to CentOS, when no one outside the core maintainers had access to the build process, where fixes relevant to CentOS could be offered.
That is because CentOS Linux (other than Stream) is a rebuild of RHEL source code .. so, that is how things get into base CentOS Linux. We don't accept input that deviates base CentOS Linux from RHEL source code. So, the way to get things into CentOS Linux is to get it into RHEL Source Code. The CentOS team does not control that process.
Now that CentOS Stream is being done .. that will be the process to get things into RHEL Source Code from a CentOS Linux perspective.