[CentOS-devel] RFC: CentOS 8 SIG

Tue Jan 5 19:53:22 UTC 2021
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 04.01.21 um 17:22 schrieb Rich Bowen:
> 
> 
> On 1/4/21 11:17 AM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
>> On Monday, January 4, 2021 9:28 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/4/21 9:05 AM, redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is an introductory Request For Comment to purpose a community SIG
>>>> to run CentOS 8 from Jan 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024.
>>>> The responsiblity of the SIG members will be to maintain a 
>>>> repository of
>>>> Stream 8 packages which have been accepted for publication into RHEL 8
>>>> The benefit to the CentOS community should be two fold:
>>>> (1) Hopefully smooth the transistion from CentOS 8 to either Stream or
>>>> Elephant
>>>> (2) Provide a repository for Stream 8 members to perform a dnf 
>>>> downgrade
>>>> as needed
>>>> The purposed SIG is also seeking a CentOS Governing board member as a
>>>> sponsor.
>>>
>>> It is stated in the FAQ that there will be no SIG for maintaining
>>> CentOS-8 beyond Dec 2021.
>>>
>>> So there will be no Official CentOS 8 Linux past that date. There are
>>> several other non CentOS / Red Hat rebuild available and/or forming for
>>> that set of rebuilt packages in the community.
>>
>> Are you clarifying what the FAQ is supposed to say?
>>
>> What it currently says is that there will be no SIG for extending 
>> Stream 8 beyond RHEL 8's end of full support.
>>
>> RHEL 8 will still be under full support beyond Dec 2021.  I'm not 
>> trying to purpose extending Stream 8 beyond the full support period.  
>> If I need to reword the RFC, please provide what wording you would 
>> suggest.
> 
> That's the Q about Stream. See also this one: 
> https://centos.org/distro-faq/#q14-can-the-centos-community-continue-to-developrebuild-centos-linux 
> 

JFI:

https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2020-December/075532.html

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Leon