[CentOS-devel] Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform

On 12/20/20 9:32 PM, Mark Mielke wrote:
> Red Hat never claimed that CentOS Stream will be just as hardened as
> CentOS. They never claimed it will get the same process. Doing so
> would make RHEL obsolete, so it's not even an intelligent thing for
> them to claim. This is more like wishful thinking.


I think they have, repeatedly.  That's now I interpret their statements:

"no one is rolling in packages here straight from
a new Fedora version or from Rawhide.  These changes are point release
type changes.  That is the type of changes you see from 8.2 to 8.3 or
7.8 to 7.9 ... not major changes."

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352374.html

"no, CentOS Stream isn't beta. Packages landing in Stream
have already passed QA and gating."

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-December/352383.html

Making a reliable distribution doesn't make RHEL obsolete. There's still 
a lot of value in an OS that is itself semantically versioned, and has 
paid support contracts.

There's no evidence to support the idea that CentOS Stream will be 
unreliable because a reliable system would compete with RHEL. And lots 
of evidence to the contrary, including the extent to which Red Hat 
publishes their work in a form usable to rebuild the distribution.