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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20190910/c1b6ab80/attachment-0008.html>