I think at least for me that's all I wanted to know. Personally I think it's even perfectly reasonable to skip 8 and go straight to 8.1. Just perhaps some updates along the way on what the status is would be nice. The updates page was great for that till it stopped updating ;-). Anyway, thanks for the update and all the hard work.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:57 PM Karanbir Singh kbsingh@centos.org wrote:
hi Akshay,
I am going to guess your question is about CentOS Linux 8 and not 7 ( since all content for 7 is already posted ).
Since I've had a voice on this side, CentOS-4'ish timeframe, have tried to make sure we dont ship something that isnt good-enough( ie, fair quality, consumeable, deliverable, sustainable ). This has meant delays as we work through challenges. We -do- have a great community and QA team, and we've had awesome progress working through the bootstrap, as was visible and reported publicly. But we have not been able to close the last mile as fast as we would have liked, should not be taken as were not trying to.
Over the last few weeks the CentOS board, Core SIG and QA teams have been working flat out to get us to a good-enough point to release and move forward, its just taking time.
Apprecaite the vote of confidence. And this list will be the first ( well, maybe centos-mirror will! ) to know as we move forward.
w.r.t the IBM question, I cant answer for them. Your best bet is to reach out to the PR and Communication channels for IBM in your region etc, and ask them.
disclaimer: While I do work for Red Hat, my role as project lead for CentOS Project is removed from my dayjob and scope/role. My comments here are presented as my role in the CentOS project.
On 10/09/2019 13:08, Akshay Kumar wrote:
Easy to put this all to bed if someone just updates folks on what the current status is. Can you just categorically state this is not related to the IBM acquisition and put an end to all these conspiracy theories?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:24 PM Jeffrey Layton <laytonjb@gmail.com mailto:laytonjb@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been using CentOS for a long time and love it! Thanks for all of the hard work, long hours, and lack of sleep. Also thanks to the mailing list - lots of great questions and answers. This is a great place to even get general Linux questions answered. There are precious few places where this is possible. However, I have to admit that 4 months for CentOS is a bit longer than usual. I know that once it is out, everything will be fine. To be honest, 4 months is too long for my needs. I went ahead and bought RHEL 8.0. I hated spending money on it since it felt like I was betraying CentOS but I just couldn't wait any longer. SorryCentOS.
But one person pointed out to me that perhaps Red Hat, since it "owns" CentOS, may actually want to delay it to get people, like me, to buy RHEL. I think this is a little too conspiracy for me, but you have to admit that the longer it is held up, the greater the possibility people will buy RHEL. I'm in the HPC world so spending a bunch of money for RHEL for every node in the cluster is not likely to happen so CentOS has an advantage there. The HPC world will wait for CentOS. Thank you CentOS team and thanks for all of the hard work. Jeff On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 11:11 AM victor mason <vm2196@gmail.com <mailto:vm2196@gmail.com>> wrote: What's the hold up on both of these? Are we back to the old days?https://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/130249/CentOS-Project-Administrato...
The whole point of setting the update page at https://wiki.centos.org/About/Building_8 was so people didn't constantly ask about release dates. Redirecting queries there is completely fair if someone updates the damn thing. It's now been a few weeks with complete radio silence. It's been 4 months since RHEL8 was released and we are coming over a month for 7.7 with a bunch of security updates piling up. Nobody from the outside who depends on this has any visibility into it and it's frustrating. Is this an IBM thing? What the hell is going on?
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