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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190910/843d9bd6/attachment-0006.sig>