[CentOS-devel] EL6 to EL7 Update Tool and Maintenance

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> There exists an update tool for moving from CentOS-6 to CentOS-7 .. the
> tool worked for awhile, but has gone into disrepair.  It currently does
> not work (so don't use it !), but we would like to get it working and
> maintain it.
>
> The following git trees are involved in the tool:
>
> https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!redhat-upgrade-tool
>
> https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!preupgrade-assistant
>
> https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!preupgrade-assistant-contents
>
> https://git.centos.org/summary/openscap
>
> The effort to keep this operational is a 'community effort' and it
> requires users from the community to volunteer to keep it functional.
> People often ask how they can help with the CentOS Project .. if you
> have the ability, this is one way.

While I might like to have such a tool, even Red Hat strongly
discourages this process and urges doing complete re-installations in
their release notes for RHEL 7. Is this really the best place to spend
the effort?