Should I understand that the most tested platform will be CentOS Stream 8 ?
Will Fedora & CentOS 8 still viable option ? Best Regards, Strahil NikolovOn Sep 26, 2019 16:13, Sandro Bonazzola <[email protected]> wrote: > > Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this > every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progressive > additions of features to projects like oVirt. Sometimes those changes are > small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our > project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s software is that > we are not alone, and because of that, changes to other projects have ripple > effects that can affect our own, even in positive ways. > > > This week, our collaborators in the CentOS Project have announced a change in > the way their software is released moving forward. > > Beyond this week release of CentOS Linux 8, the CentOS team has announced > CentOS Stream, a rolling release distribution that will be the "midstream" > between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. > > > To be clear, Fedora will remain as the first upstream of RHEL. But when RHEL > branches off, CentOS will be upstream for ongoing work on those RHEL > versions. This change gives public visibility into ongoing work on released > RHEL, and a place for developers and community projects like ours to > collaborate at that level. > > > CentOS has been heading in the direction of Stream for quite some time. > CentOS SIGs — the special interest groups for virtualization, storage, config > management, and so on — have given our project a way to provide input into > the CentOS platform. Now, though, we can actually provide direct improvements > or fixes to CentOS Stream platform that will be beneficial to our project. > Long-term, those project-specific changes can find their way into the next > release of RHEL, providing smoother transitions for those users of our > downstream projects. > > > We expect the positive effects to extend beyond our own project’s ecosystem. > Through CentOS Stream, developers will have early access to new features and > content that are being built into the upcoming RHEL version. This will help > to allow next-generation applications to have compatibility with future > versions of RHEL. > > > The benefits of these changes are clear for ecosystem developers working on > projects such as ours, writing hardware drivers, or extending protocols for > RHEL. As we push the innovations that start in Fedora through the new CentOS > Stream, the community will have a clear vision of the future of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. > > > For users of oVirt, we expect CentOS Stream to be the preferred upstream > platform on which oVirt should be run, especially with the capability for our > users to now contribute changes to our software and the community-built > platform on which oVirt runs. > > > > -- > > Sandro Bonazzola > > MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV > > Red Hat EMEA > > [email protected] > > Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer > this email out of your office hours.
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