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...... > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS-devel mailing list > >> CentOS-devel at centos.org > >> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.centos.org_mailman_listinfo_centos-2Ddevel&d=DwIFAw&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=ZscEEr9nw3LSVvXoPtSeEPOB99CD0eOeziaYFoP_AX8&m=07caNEbqshwTKcSkDB_568J1aQsjr3ENSSFE9Qm6Nzg&s=t2dmO_iYQTzbCMmh2_HuG_PiE3Lzz17__wbR58x5O2E&e= > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-devel mailing list > > CentOS-devel at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- > Jim Perrin > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20191001/2c276601/attachment-0007.html>