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

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM Alex Iribarren <alex.m.lists3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On 1/5/21 6:17 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> If Stream is truly to be RHEL's upstream, shouldn't the bugs be opened
> against Stream in the first place?
>

That does make sense actually. It might make more sense to stop having
unreleased point releases populated in RHBZ and force those to use
CentOS Stream "version" in RHEL 8 product in Bugzilla.



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