On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 11:01 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
1. Fedora Rawhide continually updated
2. ELN maintained in parallel, as part of Fedora
3. At some point, ELN branched to new CentOS Stream
4. ... a year or so of CentOS Stream development in public ...
5. RHEL Beta forked from that, released
6. Work on RHEL updates visible in CentOS Stream
7. Updates appear in CentOS Stream
8. Updates released to RHEL
Note that with CentOS Stream 10 / RHEL 10, step 3 here will _maintain git
history from Fedora, which is a big improvement in preserving all of the
incredible, valuable work from Fedora contributors.
All of this is the exact opposite of Red Hat preparing to make some new base
for RHEL. Additionally, this model provides a clean path for
Red-Hat-opinionated decisions to differ from those we make from Fedora. Take
BTRFS as an example. Or, the increase in CPU baseline. Like this:
Matthew, this is a great summary and also the understanding I currently have. It might be
a good thing if this information lives in a more permanent place that I can refer people
to. Perhaps something on Fedora's documentation about the Enterprise Linux ecosystem
or a blogpost on either the Fedora or RedHat blogs?
Regards,
Simon