[CentOS-devel] EOL plans for C3

Wed Aug 11 19:34:57 UTC 2010
Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net>

On 08/11/2010 09:27 PM, js wrote:
>   Hello All, Hello Kb,
>
> I'm too new on to the centos project (and my English is too bad), so I'm
> not ready to lead this project but:
> *I know very well Centos3/RHEL3 and clones
> *I have some very very good skills in RH and co (10 years already ...
> kernel hacking, complex bash scripts and things totally useless :-P )
> *I'm in the case 2: big servers to migrate, so my work will be (i hope)
> useful for others (how too, scripts, case study)
>
> Waiting for orders :)
>
> best regards,
>
> js.
>
>
> Le 11/08/2010 23:12, Karanbir Singh a écrit :
>> hi Guys,
>>
>> CentOS-3 goes EOL in about 3 months. I was thinking we should do a
>> couple of things for this milestone :
>>
>> 1) Setup and run an education campaign  to inform users about this.
>>
>> 2) Put together some documents that clearly lay down the options that
>> users have at this point, and going forward ( Migration options, upgrade
>> paths, virtualised containers etc )
>>
>> 3) Put together some scripts that might help people with various options
>> from point-2.
>>
>> Of-course, doing some of (2) and (3) before (1) would make (1) more
>> effective.
>>
>> So, at this time - is there anyone who wants to step forward to take
>> this task up as co-ordinator and lead ?
>>
>> - KB

So,

maybe we should just start a wiki page and gather information there in a 
structured way?

Timo