On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
B) epel8-playground is meant for future RHEL/CentOS testing, and thus everything built in epel8-playground get's built off CentOS Stream. We would continue the "build on both epel8 and epel8-playground" and this would make sure packages would be able to build on the newer RHEL.
I find this less compelling because stream changes are supposed to be minor release changes, so typically not abi/api breaks or big version updates. In general epel8 stable packages should keep working fine when the next minor 8.x release comes out, so I don't know that this would be particualrly valuable.
We have had a python update which affected a lot of package, and TUV have added lower versions of packages already in EPEL, so the minor releases are not that trivial for packagers.