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

Tue Jan 5 18:00:30 UTC 2021
Alex Iribarren <alex.m.lists3 at gmail.com>

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?

Cheers,
Alex