Am 02.02.21 um 13:25 schrieb Neal Gompa: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:22 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote: >> >> On 02/02/2021 05:03, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote: >>> On Monday, February 1, 2021 4:57 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> The other stuff is in Fedora under the Fedora CI banner. >>> >>> That is fine but the messaging of what, where, when and how of Stream has been extremely poor. I can't find a reference to that on the CentOS blog or FAQ. >>> >>> In fact, the Karsten Wade blog post was worded in a way that implied these tests were already being applied to Stream. >>> >>>> That will have much more of an impact when CentOS Stream 9 opens >>>> in three months. >>> >>> Hopefully someone can walk me through this part. >>> >>> So, we have been told the life cycle of Stream is 5 years. >>> >>> Stream 8 was released September 24, 2019 so a period of 5 years should go at least to September 2024. >>> >>> We will have both a Stream 8 and a Stream 9 from May 2021 to September 2024? And then Stream 9 will continue to May 2026? >>> >> >> I believe the 5 year starting point is from the release of RHEL 8 (e.g, >> May 2019), not the release of Stream 8. i.e, Stream runs for the 5 year >> Full Support period and ends when the underlying (downstream) product >> enters it's Maintenance Support phase. >> >> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata >> > > Yes. That means the clock on CentOS Stream 9 starts when Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 9 is GA (which would be in 2022). Thus, CentOS Stream > 9 will be around for *six* years, not five. Just a though - the full support phase between RHEL7 and RHEL8 is already not equal. The latter also make a difference between baseos and appstream. There is a chance that the next major RHEL will bring an update. -- Leon