[CentOS-devel] CentOS Streams q&a

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:51 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 9/24/19 2:55 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
> > Honestly, I read the announcement on the RedHat site and got even more
> > confused
> > (
> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/transforming-development-experience-within-centos
> ),
> > partly because there were extra products there I wasn't aware of. I
> > think I have my head wrapped around it now.
> >
> > * To borrow someone else's attempt at understanding, is this along the
> > right lines?
> >
> > Currently: fedora --> RHEL --> centos,
>
> This is accurate for how major releases are developed, but during that
> fedora->RHEL bit, it's currently not public.
>
> For the current minor releases (the .1, .2, etc) there isn't really an
> 'upstream' for rhel to pull from, or a place for people to publicly see
> what's coming.
>
> > New: fedora --> centos stream --> RHEL --> centos
> >
> > You're describing CentOS Stream as parallel to CentOS in the blog post
> > linked above, but then from the rest of it it looks like it's being used
> > to feed stable features in to RHEL, which would naturally then make
> > their way in to CentOS, same as things do currently.
> >
>
> They are two separate distributions. Currently CentOS Stream and CentOS
> Linux differ only slightly, but this will change in the future.
>
> Another way of saying for CentOS Stream is the wording used in [1]


[1] https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-and-centos-stream/


> >
> > * "It is a single, continuous stream of content with updates several
> > times daily, encompassing the latest and greatest from the RHEL
> codebase."
> >
> > What level of changes/updates are we talking about?  More up to date
> > applications or libraries, or more of just the same kinds of updates as
> > we'd expect to see between, say, 8.0 and 8.1 (typically more minor
> > upgrades of libraries and applications.)
>
>
> A rough analogy is "When RHEL 8.1 is out, CentOS Stream content would be
> the development of what should become 8.2".
>
>
> >
> >
> > Finally, how does this relate to RedHat Application Streams, or does it
> > not at all?  If it doesn't relate, that feels like a bit of a branding
> > overload of a term that may unintentionally cause some confusion.
>
> The branding is admittedly a little confusing. CentOS Stream is a
> rolling development branch for RHEL. AppStreams are a conceptual piece
> of RHEL, CentOS and CentOS Stream. Where they are in their lifecycle
> differs based on which one you're running.
>
> Does that help explain it a bit, or did I just muddle it up further for
> you?
>
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On 9/24/19 05:45, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >> So, now that Earth has caught up to the TARDIS......
> >>
> >>
> >> Would someone from the CentOS team like to explain CentOS Streams?  I
> >> saw an article at The NewStack yesterday that gave some info; oddly
> >> enough that article is giving a 404 right now, but Google still has it
> >> in cache.  But Johnny's statement a few days ago, and then this
> >> announcement, makes this new CentOS Streams business look
> >> interesting.  I see a new directory on the mirrors called 8-stream
> >> with interesting content......
> >>
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