On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:26 AM Peter Georg <peter.georg at physik.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > > >> Is there any ticket (bugzilla or whatever) where I could track the progress of the discussions? > > > > At the moment, nothing that is public. This is larger than a bug at any rate. > > > > Perhaps once there's a process for CentOS Stream community requests or > > interests that are larger in scope, someone could take the time to > > write up something that we can use to facilitate that discussion. > > I agree with you that finding a proper solution to provide further/all > subpackages is a larger endeavour and thus might take longer to solve. > > However can we at least get all subpackages that are available for > CentOS Linux now for CentOS Stream as well? I.e. populate the "Devel" > repository for CentOS Stream with the same subpackages currently > available in the CentOS Linux "Devel" repository. Possibly. I'm not sure it would show up in a "Devel" repo, but it's a smaller set to start with. > This has been a blocker for me that stops me from even checking whether > CentOS Stream might be an alternative for my use case since the > announcement about CentOS Linux EOL last year. > > It seems that the internal discussions about how to handle this in the > future have even caused issues for the current partial solution: The > Devel repository has not even been updated for CentOS Linux 8 (2011). > Which means I'm still stuck at CentOS Linux 8 (2004) :( To be frank, that's probably my fault indirectly. Even if it isn't in whole, let's just proceed as if it was and see if we can find a more compelling solution for Stream. > These issues have caused me to now seriously look into alternative > distributions despite having favored to switch to CentOS Stream for some > time now. I'd really like to switch to CentOS Stream and continue to be > a part of the CentOS Community, but it's getting harder to even convince > myself that this is a good idea every day :( I appreciate your patience. This isn't going to be quick, but we're definitely working on it. josh