Re: Blog article about the state of CentOS

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 15:10, Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 22/06/20 7:03 am, John Pierce wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 2:01 AM Simon Matter via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >

> > 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.
>

There are 2 sets of work.
1. There is the work on the tools which were slapped together as an
emergency from parts before 8.0. Those mbboxx tools are getting a
rewrite and upgrade currently by the CPE team to make them more useful
in the future. Stream only helps in that it is the excuse for that
work to be done versus it molding and falling apart right after every
8.x release comes out.
2. There is the work that happens because various things are rebased
and you need to figure out the HTF you get from build A to build A+1
by rebuilding N packages. That is work that Stream should help on
because this is then knowledge is being done in stream before hand. If
you know that package A went to A+1 then to A+2 and then back to A+1
but you learned how to do the second A+1 from a flag you used with
A+2, then the amount of time reinventing the wheel is shortened.

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