On Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 3:25 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> be a better-engineered and tested option. But as time goes on and
> the next EL release isn't either isn't announced or isn't stable
> enough to rely on, Fedora Server probably sees more use as a
> quasi-stable release base.. This fills a real need when your users
> are absolutely clamoring for things that aren't likely to be
> backported into the stable EL release and you don't want to have to
> send them into Ubuntu/Debian land (or have them grab an
> un-administered container off the shelf).

Yeah, we may have an opportunity to do this better with CentOS Stream.
Starting with RHEL 8, there's no more "next EL isn't announced" -- instead,
they're every three years. So, we know when Fedora ELN is going to flow into
CentOS Stream and from there to RHEL. We could actually position and label
each Fedora Server release by where it fits on the wave of that cadence.

It's too early to say that this hypothetical workflow is a replacement for Fedora. Things still show up in RHEL 8 ahead of CentOS Stream.

A strong Fedora Server edition means a strong RHEL Server.

- Ken