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> The Rocky Linux community strongly believes in the open source value of collaboration. Rocky Linux contributors have participated as a responsible part of the EL ecosystem, regularly contributing upstream to CentOS Stream as well as Fedora, and other open source projects. These contributions strengthen the entire EL community.

I'm really happy to hear this, but what sort of upstream contributions has Rocky sent?

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As a CentOS user when that was a thing, I looked for ways to contribute fixes to red hat for inclusion in future updates of RHEL. I came up empty. It seems the way at the time was to contribute the fix to fedora. Now I’m supposed to contribute it to CentOS stream. That’s not really a useful approach when the problem exists in the latest RHEL bits but not in these channels where they maybe accept contributions.

CentosOS stream feeds into the next release - isn't that where you want the fix to land ?

If I am experiencing a bug in RHEL 8.x and others with similar hardware could also experience the same bug, it would be swell for me to be able to submit a fix that would stand some chance of making it into a future RHEL 8.x release as well as RHEL 9.x releases. If it is fixed in CentOS Stream, I think the earliest release this will feed into is RHEL 10, since RHEL 9.x is already released. It's quite possible the problem is already fixed in Stream because the package was upgraded but that upgrade is unlikely to ever make it into RHEL 8.x.

CentOS Stream is a lot closer to RHEL than that. There is a CentOS Stream 8 that feeds into RHEL 8, and a Stream 9 to RHEL 9, etc.

If you want to get a fix into RHEL 8, you can submit it to Stream 8 and if accepted it will go into the next release of RHEL.

Personally, I regularly contribute to Fedora and EPEL, as well as Stream (and RHEL). In addition, I am a Core Reviewer for OpenStack-Ansible and am part of the OpenInfra community.

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