On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 8:05 AM Kaleb Keithley kkeithle@redhat.com wrote:
Not sure. But, e.g., glusterfs-7.9 was never built on CentOS 6 after RHEL6/CentOS6 reached EOL. The buildroots get deleted I know, e.g. on Fedora. I tried to do a scratch build of gluster 7.8 on C6 and the task is stuck in 'waitrepo', so it looks like CBS has deleted its obsolete buildroots too.
RHEL8 and CentOS Stream 8 probably still have around five more years before they approach EOL. Who can say if the people who are building packages now will even still be around in five years. People change jobs, retire, etc.
The CentOS Stream 8 EOL timeframe is the end of the full-support phase of RHEL 8. That is roughly 5 years from 8.0 GA, so approximately 2 years from now. This is documented on the project pages.
RHEL 8 has a maintenance phase that extends beyond that and will not be retired for quite some time.
The volunteers who do the builds don't have infinite resources (e.g. time). Would you be willing to commit to doing them? How about five years from now?
How many people are still using RHEL7 or CentOS 7 at this point? By the time CS8 reaches EOL how many people, realistically, will still be using it? And want new builds of glusterfs five years from now.
A significant portion of our user base is still on RHEL 7. The Enterprise industry does not migrate rapidly.
josh
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 2:56 AM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS-devel centos-devel@centos.org wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know what will happen with the GlusterFS packages after Stream 8 EOL ? I'm wondering if the build system will keep building them for RHEL 8 or they won't be built anymore ?
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