<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Johnny! That update was great! Two things:<div><br></div><div>a) What can people do to help?</div><div>b) What kind of beer do you drink and where should we send a case?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:34 PM Johnny Hughes <<a href="mailto:johnny@centos.org">johnny@centos.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 9/10/19 3:24 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:<br>
> On 9/10/19 6:10 AM, victor mason wrote:<br>
>> What's the hold up on both of these? Are we back to the old days?<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrator-Goes-AWOL</a><br>
>><br>
>> The whole point of setting the update page<br>
>> at <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8</a> was so people didn't<br>
>> constantly ask about release dates. Redirecting queries there is<br>
>> completely fair if someone updates the damn thing. It's now been a few<br>
>> weeks with complete radio silence.<br>
>><br>
>> It's been 4 months since RHEL8 was released and we are coming over a<br>
>> month for 7.7 with a bunch of security updates piling up.<br>
>><br>
>> Nobody from the outside who depends on this has any visibility into it<br>
>> and it's frustrating. Is this an IBM thing? What the hell is going on?<br>
>><br>
> <br>
> WRT 7.7.1908 .. CR is released:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/thread.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/thread.html</a><br>
> <br>
> WRT CentOS 8 .. it has taken a back seat to 7.7.1908. Millions of users<br>
> already use CentOS Linux 7. Those people needs updates.<br>
> <br>
> I updated the CentOS-7 build page .. we have to build new kernels for<br>
> aarch64 and power9 because Red Hat dropped support for those in RHEL<br>
> (they were tech previews there); however CentOS does not want to drop<br>
> those users, so we are engineering a kernel for them.<br>
> <br>
> Anyway .. the os/ trees for 7.7.1908 are now (very recently added) to<br>
> the QA tree. They need full QA .. then we can build updates for the<br>
> 7.7.1908 release. We can't build them now, because if the os/ dir is<br>
> broken .. the updates built from it will also be broken.<br>
> <br>
> Once the updates are built .. and tested .. then the 7.7.1908 tree will<br>
> he released.<br>
> <br>
> Then we will get back to CentOS 8 .. since because no one has it yet ..<br>
> it is not a priority.<br>
<br>
I would also like to point out .. there are 3 people who work on CentOS<br>
Linux. We do not have 1500 engineers to get work done.<br>
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