On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 04:34:53AM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > 2. Minor release milestones to stabilize branches. We have breakage > with most minor release upgrades, and the stabilization process is an > important method of isolating users from being affected by this. This > is why CentOS 8 Stream is being said "for developers", while RHEL 8 > would be "for production". It is being said, because it is a real > thing. If you truly believed minor release milestones were unnecessary > for CentOS 8 Stream, then you would also believe that minor release > milestones were unnecessary for RHEL 8. It's important to note that the CentOS Linux rebuild never actually had this. RHEL minor releases are actually branches, and you can stay at a minor release and still get security updates. For CentOS Linux, a minor release is a point where updates pause for a while while the team scrambles to rebuild a large update of many packages and then those packages all updated in a big chunk _on the single CentOS branch_. So this is always been extra value that Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides that CentOS Linux did not mimic. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader