On 11/14/18 3:50 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 11/14/18 1:26 PM, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote:
Je mer, 2018-11-14 je 18:34 +0100, Kevin Kofler skribis:
That is what make us different distro with its own user base. Want
the
very same but LTS system? try CentOS. Or RHEL.
+1. LTS Fedora is what CentOS is for. Why should we not just point
users who
want LTS to CentOS and EPEL?
Crazy idea: Would it be possible to integrate CentOS into the Fedora
fold?
It's not a crazy idea at all, but the details are tricky. Since CentOS
is essentially a RHEL derivative, this would require RedHat
collaboration. In principle, Fedora is an R&D precursor for RHEL, but
I have not seen an official statement on how RedHat bakes RHEL out of
Fedora.
Hey, Josh and I gave a talk about that at Flock. Hopefully we'll be
doing another at Devconf.
If you squint at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux , it seems that
they fork Fedora every 4 or so years, and take about a year of QA,
while selectively (?) back-porting subsequent Fedora developments. The
result is RedHat-branded and released as RHEL; whereas CentOS follows
up while stripping RedHat branding (yes, there's a certain amount of
forth-and-back :)
I wonder if RedHat could be persuaded to modify their process to adopt
a Fedora release instead of forking it, and backport into that
release---let's call it "Fedora LTS a.k.a. CentOS Release Candidate"
(FLAC-RC :). It would require perhaps more effort on the part of
RedHat to avoid breakage in the middle of their development cycle, but
that's probably a good CI practice anyway.
Matthew, do you think that is something that RedHat might be
interested in?
The question ever on my mind is how do we balance the independence of
each distribution and its members while creating something we can
share that is net-positive for all. It will be complex, but there is
definitely room for more 3-way collaboration than is happening today.
--
Brendan Conoboy / RHEL Development Coordinator / Red Hat, Inc.
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