[CentOS-devel] should we expect to close CentOS Stream bugs as dups of RHEL?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:06 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 12:03 PM Ken Dreyer <kdreyer at redhat.com> wrote:
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> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This RHBZ tracks a problem in CentOS Stream:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901449
> >
> > Today someone closed it as a duplicate of RHEL 8.4:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901449
> >
> > When is it appropriate to track a bug against RHEL 8.4 vs CentOS Stream?
> >
> > What do we expect community members (inside and outside RH) to do in
> > these cases?
> >
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> In my opinion, bugs for CentOS Stream should not be closed in favor of
> RHEL 8.4 bugs (or any future unreleased RHEL 8.x bugs). Instead it
> should be the other way around. The pipeline for changes to RHEL means
> that RHEL 8.4 bugs should be closed as dupes of CentOS Stream ones.

That's a reasonable perspective, but often the RHEL bug has been
around for quite some time and has far more relevant data to the issue
at hand.  It's not really about RHEL vs. Stream, but rather which bug
has the most useful information.

I think the Stream team are still formulating some contribution
guidelines and this might be something to consider as part of that
work.

josh