[CentOS] CentOS 8 future

Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA)
Wed, 16 Dec 2020 02:13:36 -0000

On Dec 15, 2020, at 7:41 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at
centos.org<mailto:johnny at centos.org>> wrote:

$250K is not even close.  That is one employee, when you also take into
account unemployment insurance, HR, medical insurance etc.  now multiply
that by 8.  Now, outfit those 8 employees to work from home .. all over
the world, different countries, different laws.

Every package that ends up in a RHEL point release is in Stream at some point,
right?  While I can certainly believe that the cost for the entire CentOS effort
is much more than $250K, dropping CentOS point releases just means not gathering
the particular versions that ended up in the corresponding RHEL point release.

Even for someone outside of CentOS, it sounds as simple as constantly
downloading everything that's released in Stream (since apparently old rpm
revisions won't stay in the CentOS repo), then looking at which versions
made it into the RHEL point release, and copying just those to a repo for
update.   Am I missing some complex step?