On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:45 AM Julien Pivotto roidelapluie@inuits.eu wrote:
On 09 Jul 02:45, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:09:22AM +0200, Julien Pivotto wrote:
Could you please configure your MUA to send text/plain or similar to the CentOS lists?
Sorry, the one and only time I sent a mail from my phone :(
Providing stream as a continuity of 8 is the best thing to do, to show that we are confident and that the whole "stream fits most of the CentOS use case". It also has the side effect of better protecting the internet.
Note that it will put a lot of pressure and bring a lot of users on stream. It is a giant opportunity for stream, probably a unique opportunity.
Stream is driving users and companies away from CentOS. Many are reviewing their previous usage and support. Many are questioning the wisdom of a migration to RHEL and reviewing other options, such as non RHEL based operating systems or a different supported operating system. Amazon Linux 2, for example, has picked up a lot of clients by porting more contemporary versions of system components like Python 3.7 to their RHEL 7 based operating system.
The backfire already happened. Having a solid end-date for the point releases puts a timetable on migration decisions, which is useful.