On 22/06/20 7:03 am, John Pierce wrote: > 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. That work was completed in the build of 8.0 and to a smaller extent 8.1. Stream doesn't really add anything here. Peter