[CentOS-devel] Stream naming

Wed Mar 3 14:34:17 UTC 2021
Brian Stinson <brian at bstinson.com>

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, at 08:14, Tim Bell wrote:
> 
> I see a number of different ways of naming CentOS Stream versions and 
> it would be good to agree on a consistent one, especially as a number 
> of other communities start to add stream support.
> 
> Specifically,
> 
> - Is it “CentOS Stream 8” or “CentOS 8 Stream” ?
> - Is it “cs8” or “c8s” ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
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My suggestion is: 

"CentOS Stream 8" 

and

"c8s" 

I realize this is controversial to some, but there is some thought behind it. "CentOS Stream" is the operating system we produce, "8" is the version, but we refer to 'c8s' because that matches our regular branch structure in git.centos.org which we are planning to replicate in Gitlab for CentOS Stream 9.

We are working on a style guide published to the docs site where these things can be recorded more officially. We'll announce that here when we're open for contribution/discussion.

--Brian