On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:24:33AM +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
What will be the incentive for vendors to participate? Sure you can talk the corporate talk about opportunities and ecosystems, but the bottom line is that it requires investment (at least in time) when they could just continue supporting RHEL point releases, or possibly every other point release.
Oh, this one is easy. Because *this is how Red Hat is telling vendors to support RHEL point releases from now on*. I know it's easy to get lost in everything else, but this is a huge pivot in RHEL development focusing more directly on CentOS.
(Although as I understand it there will also be cases where code supporting new hardware is embargoed until a release date, which complicates things in some cases. That doesn't change the overall new picture though.)