On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:51 AM Phil Perry <pperry at elrepo.org> wrote: > On 20/01/2021 08:12, Julien Pivotto wrote: > > On 20 Jan 08:08, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote: > >> There are four main goals of this SIG: > >> > >> First, break down changes in the Stream version 4.18.0 kernel into > individual patches. When possible, document the source the patch is from > and the purpose of the patch. Moving forward also document which Stream > kernel package revision introduced the patch. > > > > Let's face it that should be the sane technical default for stream, from > > red hat. They should provide it out of the box. What they do downstream > > after this is up to them. > > > > > > Agreed. I makes it very very difficult to contribute to Stream at the > kernel level is any meaningful way if there is not a proper git > repository (or similar) tracking all commits that have been made over > the lifetime of the project. > > Red Hat killed CentOS Linux on the basis it's community was simply a > community of users and didn't contribute anything. As it stands CentOS > Stream is no different as there is still no effective way to contribute. > Having a proper git repository is the first step to changing that. > Otherwise we are shackled to remaining users who can file bug reports > when something breaks but little else. > > In reality, Stream is not an open upstream of RHEL, but rather CentOS > and RHEL have simply switched positions within a closed downstream > process, CentOS Stream now being the first (development) step in that > closed process rather than a rebuild of it. > > I'm not offering to be a part of this proposed SIG, but am watching the > whole topic with much interest. > I'll check with the kernel team and see if we have any published plans or even a test repo we can share so people can see what we're planning. -Mike > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210120/690b995c/attachment-0005.html>