[CentOS-devel] Stream naming

Wed Mar 3 15:13:27 UTC 2021
Carl George <carl at redhat.com>

I agree with Tim about the inconsistency.  I've been referring to the
distro as CS8, or just CS if I'm not talking about a specific version.  The
branches are named the way they are for technical reasons, but there is no
reason we have to use that naming pattern when discussing the distro.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:53 AM Aoife Moloney <amoloney at redhat.com> wrote:

> Not a problem, its good to have this early feedback so thanks for bringing
> the topic up!
>
> We will keep you informed when we have something in writing and its on our
> TODO list this month to get in place :)
>
>
> Kindest regards,
> Aoife
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 2:47 PM Tim Bell <tim.bell at cern.ch> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, pleased to see this is being looked at.
>>
>> Good to see there is a style guide in preparation.
>>
>> CentOS Stream 8 and c8s would seem to be inconsistent to me (as opposed
>> to cs8) but the most important thing is that there is an agreed standard
>> for all the repos, VM metadata, inventories etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim
>>
>> On 3 Mar 2021, at 15:37, Aoife Moloney <amoloney at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> The CentOS Stream team are working on a style guide right now which we
>> hope to publish soon, our aim is towards the middle to end of March.
>> This will guide people wishing to add Stream on the correct version names
>> and shorthand to use.
>>
>> FWIW I refer to it as CentOS Stream <number> and c<number>s for shorthand
>> :)
>>
>> Thanks for bearing with us though on this, its being worked on actively
>> and we hope to get something out to the public soon.
>>
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>> Aoife
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 2:15 PM Tim Bell <tim.bell at cern.ch> 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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>>
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