Opening up an earlier rather private discussion RE: "Fedora and upstream RC releases" to get feedback from the community, especially distro users / maintainers other than Fedora / CentOS, including maintainers of homebrew, snap, etc.

Podman upstream usually releases RCs before any minor version bump, and there's approximately a month between the first RC and the .0 release.

Now Fedora has a policy of consumable updates which says any build that gets submitted to the testing repos should be good enough for the stable repos.

Ref: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#consumable-updates 

Currently, Podman RCs aren't always a 100% release-worthy which means Fedora can't ship an RC build even to its testing repos and that means a month's worth of community testing lost. Similar situation with CentOS Stream.

So, here's what I'm hoping to know:

1. Do other distros ship Podman RCs soon as they are available or do you wait until the final release?

2. Would it be easier for distros to ship RCs if upstream ensured every RC is good enough to be released or does the "RC" in the tag itself scare users away? In which case we could perhaps do away with RC tagging.

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