[CentOS-devel] CentOS 8/7.7

[Akshay Kumar]

Thanks, Johnny! That update was great! Two things:

a) What can people do to help?
b) What kind of beer do you drink and where should we send a case?

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:34 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 9/10/19 3:24 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 9/10/19 6:10 AM, victor mason 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-Administrator-Goes-AWOL
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >
> > WRT 7.7.1908 .. CR is released:
> >
> >
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2019-August/thread.html
> >
> > WRT CentOS 8 .. it has taken a back seat to 7.7.1908.  Millions of users
> > already use CentOS Linux 7.  Those people needs updates.
> >
> > I updated the CentOS-7 build page .. we have to build new kernels for
> > aarch64 and power9 because Red Hat dropped support for those in RHEL
> > (they were tech previews there); however CentOS does not want to drop
> > those users, so we are engineering a kernel for them.
> >
> > Anyway .. the os/ trees for 7.7.1908 are now (very recently added) to
> > the QA tree.  They need full QA .. then we can build updates for the
> > 7.7.1908 release.  We can't build them now, because if the os/ dir is
> > broken .. the updates built from it will also be broken.
> >
> > Once the updates are built .. and tested .. then the 7.7.1908 tree will
> > he released.
> >
> > Then we will get back to CentOS 8 .. since because no one has it yet ..
> > it is not a priority.
>
> I would also like to point out .. there are 3 people who work on CentOS
> Linux.  We do not have 1500 engineers to get work done.
>
>
>
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