2025-04-07 –, Showcase
CentOS Stream is especially suited for production deployments. In these environments it's often common to develop improvements to distribution packages and want to contribute them upstream. Unfortunately, until very recently that required one to then maintain their own build and deployment pipeline for the packages, at least until the changes made their way into the distribution.
CentOS Proposed Updates (CPU) SIG aims to bridge this gap - changes that have been submitted as merge requests can be built in this SIG, providing those who run Stream in production with access to needed updates while they make their way into CentOS Stream. We hope this will help increase collaboration between RHEL engineers, CentOS Stream contributors, and the rebuild community as well, especially those that have distributions derived from CentOS Stream directly (such as AlmaLinux with AlmaLinux OS Kitten), as everyone can focus on making improvements without reinventing their own build pipelines.
Michel Lind is co-chair of the new CentOS Proposed Updates SIG. He is a long-term Fedora contributor who more recently also contribute to EPEL and the Hyperscale SIG. In his day job, Michel is a Production Engineer on the Linux Userspace team at Meta, which is responsible for the CentOS Stream deployment on the production fleet.
Jonathan is co chair of the newly-formed CentOS Proposed Update SIG and Infrastructure Team Lead for AlmaLinux. He has been consuming open source and building infrastructure in the web hosting industry for over 20 years and actively contributing to open source for roughly the past 4 within the AlmaLinux, Fedora, and EPEL communities, among others. Outside of technology he is an avid hunter and conservationist, boating and water sports enthusiast, member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, and aspiring private pilot.