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I was trying to understand what CentOS Stream is for and how/whether to contribute, so I started from https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/ but I quickly got disoriented and left with more questions than answers.

Based on a discussion at https://fosstodon.org/@carlwgeorge/110709163210683776, I think the main issue is that I don't understand what kind of contributions are desirable in CentOS Stream as opposed to elsewhere.

Use case

I'm looking for a certain update that I know exists upstream, like a patch for a known CVE with an existing tracking bug in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. I want to ensure it's on its way to my RHEL and Fedora oldstable systems and that it doesn't break my things.

Expected behaviour

Not sure. Maybe https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/ should be more like https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org and https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ . Maybe I just need an explanation of what kind of patches live here and where to look whether one is being baked already. Maybe I just need reassurance that if I file a bug or patch in the wrong component it will be redirected where it belongs.

Background

I've read

• https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
• https://quantum-integration.org/the-curse-of-bug-to-bug-compatibility

which hopefully gave me an idea of what CentOS Stream could be useful for.

https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/contributing/source-git/ links to https://git.centos.org/rpms but that URL gives a 404. It's interesting because there are repos are under rpms/, but that URL alone doesn't show anything.

This page:
https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/quickstart/#_3_reference_the_bugzilla_you_filed_in_your_commits

Says that commits must contain a rh bz like this:
git commit --signoff -m 'This is my awesome patch, Related: rhbz#123456
git commit --signoff -m 'This is another patch to the same bug, Fixes: #123456 (The checkers let me leave off the rhbz prefix)'

That is incorrect. The Related: rhbz#123456 or equivalent must be at the beginning of the line. Otherwise it does not work:
https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/vsftpd/-/merge_requests/9/pipelines