On 12/16/20 6:08 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
... It makes a lot of sense that people would be upset about this. We very much should have set better expectations at the launch of CentOS 8 but at that point no specific dates around CentOS8 had been decided other than to release it.
The 2019 statement appears partly to have been intended to alleviate concerns about CentOS Linux 8 going away. It seems to have done that job too well.
The RHEL9 bootstrap process has already started with Fedora ELN ..
Ok, good to know, thanks for the pointer. To those who might not have found it, read https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/eln/
... People being upset about the CentOS Stream 8 dates makes a ton of sense to me. But people thinking that we'd be shipping CentOS Linux 1,500 in the year 2984 doesn't. Taking someone's words about our intentions at some time or plans at some time, and then expanding them across an infinite timeline is just not how anything works.
In my particular case I had no expectations for CentOS > 8.
...The September 24, 2019 statement, in my opinion, is what primarily set the stage for this backlash you see today.Again, that was accurate at that time. If I could go back in time not do a CentOS Linux 8 release, I would have. But it wasn't in the cards.
A real pity.
I just saw the official joint statement come down from Fermilab about this; they basically said that they would say something more concrete during Q1 2021.
And thanks for the links and reminders for the centos-questions@redhat.com email address. Time to write an email, I guess.