On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:01 AM Simon Matter via CentOS <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 21/06/20 1:23 pm, John Pierce wrote: > >> but the build process should be the same, no? I can't believe RH > >> would > >> use a completely different build process for the release than for the > >> beta/development stuff. > > > > The packages still have to be built as a whole, they need to go through > > QA testing, isos need to be built and tested. The only thing that I can > > think of that Stream benefits this process is to help Red Hat find the > > odd bug here and there before their final release (after which CentOS > > still has to do everything listed above). > > As I understand it the whole full build and QA and whatever may still be > done again. The big difference is that the whole work of how to build and > setting up the build infrastructure has already been done and is known and > tested. So the complete build is going quite fast and the big delays are a > thing of the past. > > If it's going to be like that it sounds very good. > > exactly, that was my point. I remember 8.0 was very delayed by how much harder and different the build process was. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz