On 9/24/19 1:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:24 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote: >> >> Okay, now that the release is out, and everything is announced properly. >> I'm happy to answer questions about Stream. >> > > Still about libosinfo, but from a different perspective ... > > Of course we want to have CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream added to > libosinfo (with unattended installations support). However, we have > messed up in the past when adding CentOS 7 as we conuted that CentOS 7 > would follow exactly the same numbering as RHEL 7. After some time, > turned out that we (libosinfo) should have added CentOS 7 as "centos7" > and not as "centos7.0". > > In order to avoid the same mistake: > - Shall we go for CentOS 8 as a "rolling 8", meaning, no 8.1, 8.2 ... just 8? I believe CentOS 8 should be a rolling 8, the same as 7, but I'll defer to smarter people like Brian or Fabian to tell me if I'm wrong. > - Shall we go for CentOS Stream or shall we target the Stream as *8* > Stream (and here implying that we'll always see a major stream > release)? This one is slightly tricky. There is only "CentOS Stream" for now, but for technical reasons we've tagged it in yum/dnf as '8-stream' via the stream variable. This may take some discussion before I can give you an official answer. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77