A couple of episodes ago Carl George came on to talk about EPEL, and about half of that conversation ended up being about CentOS. We got enough follow-up questions that we decided to give it a full episode.
This one is the biggest panel we have ever had on the show:
- Amy Marrich, chair of the CentOS Board, technical marketing for OpenStack at Red Hat
- Troy Dawson, CentOS Stream team lead, CentOS Board member, and the person building CentOS Stream for RISC-V in the ISA and Alternative Images SIGs
- Shaun McCance, CentOS Community Architect, and as of a couple of weeks ago the Fedora Community Architect too
What we covered:
- Why CentOS Linux and CentOS Stream are not the same project, and why the trailing rebuild retired around the RHEL 9 timeframe
- The Fedora, ELN, CentOS Stream, RHEL pipeline in plain terms, and what ELN actually is
- How Stream and RHEL are now built from the same commit and tested together, with Stream shipping on a one-week cadence
- Why that mattered on RHEL 9 launch day for partners who had been building against Stream 9
- How the project is governed, why only one board seat speaks for Red Hat, and what the SIG Council does
- Getting involved without being a developer, and why newcomers make good documentation contributors
Listen: Fedora Project Podcast 59: What is CentOS?
Watch: https://youtu.be/rYgENECV4ns
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