On 12/9/20 6:42 PM, James Pearson wrote: > Scott Dowdle> >>> Q13 is against the statement that stream is ahead of RHEL, if RHEL is >>> built on top of stream, there must be a stream to do the last 5 years >>> of RHEL8. >> While, for some reason, you draw that conclusion, they have clearly stated that is not the case. >> The last 5 years gets no package rebasing nor new feature as it shifts from Full Support mode >> to Maintenance mode. In Maintenance mode they may do some hardware enablement as >> necessary but the bulk is just applying security and critical bug fixes. Stream is for only for the >> Full Support phase where new features are being added. > That hasn't always been the case with previous EL versions - e.g. Firefox with EL6 went from ESR 68 to ESR 78 only 10 weeks ago - which was just before EL6 reached Maintenance EOL ... > > James Pearson And the high-quality QA killed sound in the process https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=17767