[CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

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