On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:25 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is this a Fedora project or a Red Hat project using Fedora resources? > > Yes. OK, so this was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek joke as a way to acknowledge the question that came up in the original ELN discussions and identify that the answer is essentially "both". This was much clearer in the original draft of this email that I wrote when it was followed by a FAQ entry titled "Can you just say the quiet part out loud, please?" I reworked that into the "What is the benefit of ELN?" section and the nuance of the relationship between the two questions was lost. I should have dropped the joke question to avoid side-tracking the conversation. FWIW, Stephen Smoogen had it mostly right in his response, but I'll state it here: * All Fedora hardware resources are provided/funded by Red Hat, Inc. * This project is taking place within the Fedora community and infrastructure. * This project is clearly beneficial to Red Hat, Inc. * Projects beneficial to Red Hat, Inc. tend to get additional funding and personnel over time which benefits Fedora as a whole. > What is the benefit of ELN? > > The advent and refocus of CentOS Stream has provided a clearer story around RHEL development. Fedora remains the development hub for the next major RHEL release, while CentOS Stream fills that upstream role for stabilization and updates. Thus, some of us have started exploring ways to ensure that Fedora builds on its valuable position in the ecosystem. > > > We decided to focus on streamlining the process by which Fedora is forked and becomes Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Historically, we would pick a Fedora release, replicate its dist-git history internally and then proceed to make all the changes, tweaks, and hideous hacks needed to bootstrap RHEL. All of this would take place “behind the firewall,” and while we would usually pull in many of the changes from at least one subsequent Fedora release, for the most part this was effectively closed-source development from this point onwards until release. > > > With CentOS Stream on the horizon, plans are already in motion for more of the internal mechanisms being made public and visible. Therefore we decided to look at making the bootstrapping process a more continuous effort, rather than a complex ritual performed once every three years at midnight during a full moon. Thus, the seeds of ELN were born. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
