CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG) Established
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CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG) Established
The CentOS Board of Directors has approved the establishment of the CentOS Integration Special Interest Group (SIG).
This group is designed to help those building products and services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), or specifically its upstream CentOS Stream, validate that they will continue to run in future releases.
Red Hat RHEL CI engineer Aleksandra Fedorova proposed in a related proposal :
I would like to propose the formation of a new Special Interest Group focused on integration work around CentOS Stream.
Integration is about verifying that products and services built on RHEL or CentOS Stream can continue to run on CentOS Stream and the next RHEL version without interruption due to package updates.
Because RHEL content is only available after release, RHEL-based services have traditionally used a catching-up integration model: people have to adapt their products and services to run on the new RHEL after the update is released. Tuning services takes time and consumes the supported RHEL lifecycle. This also reduces our options for dealing with breaking changes.
CentOS Stream provides a way to achieve proactive integration: you can integrate changes early in the development process, before they are released to CentOS Stream or RHEL software repositories. This way, we can prevent or at least prepare for any breaking changes that may be released via CentOS Stream or RHEL updates.
The purpose of this SIG is to provide a shared space to develop and maintain tools and knowledge base for collaboratively controlling and testing CentOS Stream updates before they are released to CentOS images. Includes package-level and compose-level integration.
The SIG program will document existing integration workflows used by other SIGs; identify common issues; manage, develop, and promote third-party CI for CentOS Stream; and develop integration toolkits.
After the SIG was approved by the board of directors, Aleksandra Fedorova also posted that the group is establishing tools and communication channels, and everyone is welcome to join and explore ways to cooperate.
