On 10/5/19 11:48 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 03:01:43PM +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: >> In the future new features and upgrades will appear in Stream as a sort >> of rolling release and it will form the basis of future RHEL releases >> (and subsequently CentOS releases). It will also be the place for >> community input into RHEL/CentOS. Think of it as halfway between the >> cutting edge Fedora and the stable RHEL releases. > > Sometimes the easiest explanation is too easy. :) > > CentOS Stream won't be getting new releases of software that isn't intended > to go into a RHEL minor release (like 8.2). It'll just be getting those > changes sooner (and with the possibility of updates, revisions, and even > rollbacks before the RHEL minor release). It will be changing daily, so it's > less stable in that sense, but the net change over six months will be the > same as what can be expected in a RHEL minor update, and I don't think the > policies for that are changing. > > That's CentOS Stream, at least. But I think there's room for a lot more > CentOS/Fedora collaboration, where for example we use bits from CentOS > Stream to provide longer lifecycle for some packages, or use bits from the > Fedora collection — possibly through Fedora EPEL — to provide faster > alternatives for RHEL and the CentOS traditional rebuild. > It would have to be something other then CentOS Stream. Maybe CentOS gets some software streams/modules where you can choose Firefox 68 over 60, but it would have to come from EPEL I am guesing, with CentOS only providing infrastructure for this change. But I somehow doubt it will go that way, CentOS is ment as only rebuld of RHEL. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant