Re: Blog article about the state of CentOS

[John Pierce <jhn.pierce@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:01 AM Simon Matter via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.


-- 
-john r pierce
  recycling used bits in santa cruz
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