On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:24 AM Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
On 12/17/20 10:22 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 12/17/20 9:54 AM, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hi, There has been some confusion around the new CentOS Stream timeframe.
Through the past year we've been told that when CentOS Stream 9 comes out, CentOS Stream 8 will be phased out in a short period of time.
That is untrue.
The end date of CentOS Stream 8 is the end of the RHEL full support period. That is 5 years from the release of RHEL 8. That is in the FAQ:
With the new announcement we have been told that the CentOS Stream 8 (and any future version) will be available during the maintenance phase of that release. [1] This means that CentOS Stream 8 will be around for 5 years.
I've been trying to send people to the CentOS Stream FAQ [2] because it's easier to find. But the question [3] related to this hasn't been updated and says it will be a year at most.
Question 2 says:
Updates for the CentOS Stream 8 distribution continue through the full RHEL support phase. .. It links directly to the RHEL page to say 5 years.
So, thus my question. Can the CentOS Stream FAQ be updated with the new policy?
Thanks Troy Dawson
[1] - https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q6-will-there-be-separateparallelsimultaneous... [2] - https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOSStream [3] - https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOSStream#What_happens_when_CentOS_Stream_swi...
BTW .. THIS is the FAQ:
https://centos.org/distro-faq/
The wiki is community maintained.
The FAQ that I linked to must have been updated before you read it. Because it is quite different than when I originally linked to it.
I know you and your team are going through alot of garbage being thrown at you from all sides. I apologize if this seemed like just another sling at you. It wasn't intended to be.
But when I do a google on CentOS Stream FAQ, the link to the wiki is what I, and others are getting. I couldn't figure out who updates it, so I sent the request here. Because, as you said, what it was saying was no longer true.
Troy