<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c762e7a5-7fff-9610-d55f-4fbc69a45838"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello, we would like to announce our plan to decommission and remove the c8s branches of the CentOS Stream source-git repositories. This also means the removal of any repository from the <a href="http://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src">gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src</a> namespace which is left without a branch. Stream 9 content will not be affected.</span></span><br><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5a6bf7c2-7fff-be18-cb1c-3a160147aee9"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As you might remember, these are the source-git repositories produced by unpacking the c8s branches from CentOS Stream 8 dist-git, and making the resulting content available at <a href="http://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src">gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src</a>.</span></span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-7867cdd9-7fff-7b06-eded-f176958115d3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We took a look at the utilization of this content during 2021, based on the GitLab data and found out that</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> no one from the community has used these repositories to contribute to CentOS Stream 8. The only exception is the kernel repository [1], we will keep that one up.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div>Please let us know if you find these repositories useful or are part of your routine.</div><div><br></div><div>Our focus for the future is to deliver a consistent source-git workflow for Fedora and CentOS Stream under the umbrella of Fedora source-git SIG [2].</div><div><br></div><div>[1]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> <a href="https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-8">https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-8</a></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c11627c2-7fff-62fa-bc97-b8b72a7d58ef"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Source-git">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Source-git</a></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Tomas</span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></div>