On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 11:28:39AM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > I'm pretty sure I understand the workflow, or what will be the workflow, for > CentOS Stream and RHEL, but there's one thing I'm curious about that I'd love > to have clarified, at least to the extent that it's been planned or thought > about so far: > > Historically, a major release of RHEL has been cut from Fedora and polished up > (or chopped down or...) but now that CentOS Stream exists, I can see several > paths forward. > > One possibility I envision is that CStream will progress at about the same > pace as RHEL point releases today, which would suggest that when it comes time > to branch something for RHEL 9, that might once again be Fedora, with the > branch then being a major release of CStream that'll be polished into what > will be released as RHEL 9.0. Yep. See: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-and-centos-stream/ "Fedora will remain the first upstream of RHEL. It’s where every RHEL came from, and is where RHEL 9 will come from, too. But after RHEL branches off, CentOS will be upstream for ongoing work on those RHEL versions." > > Another possibility is that CStream will move somewhat quicker, with point > releases over time covering more ground, somewhat obviating the notion of a > major release - but this would conflict with the notion of a stable platform > for vendors and partners to use as a long-lived base for their products, so I > suspect it's not the answer. Right. It's not as far as I know. > > A third possibility is that when RHEL 8 slows down [1] and there wouldn't > normally be another point release of it, CStream will pick up pace and make > bigger changes until it rolls forward to where RHEL 9 will pick up. This is > the one I'm hoping for personally, as it would keep CStream as a continuous > rolling release, and appropriate for situations where you'd want a rolling > release. (There's no official equivalent to Leapp for CentOS, but this would > mean that CStream wouldn't need one.) I don't think this is intended/possible. At some point RHEL9 will branch off Fedora, and at some point after that I would image there would be a new centos 9 stream that appears (after 9 beta? before? not sure). Centos 8 stream would keep tracking the 8.x point releases. kevin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20191005/22ec7f71/attachment-0006.sig>