On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 5:07 PM Davide Cavalca via CentOS-devel < centos-devel at centos.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 16:22 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > Surprising users seldom goes well, even if it's an overall positive > > surprise. > > What are our options for making it less of a surprise? We could post a > blog, etc. about it of course (and we should, if we decide to go down > this path), but that won't reach folks that don't follow the community > closely. Maybe we should push an update to the default MOTD to let > people know this is coming? Although, from personal experience, people > tend to react pretty poorly to those kind of things as well sometimes. > Any other ideas? > > I do agree that upgrading to 8-stream is strictly better than leaving > systems unsupported, and that for the vast majority of users it would > be a net positive. What about moving to a security update only mode? Nothing else really changes but at least you don't leave 450k+ systems idling on the internet just waiting to be scooped up into a bot net. Personally I feel that's what a good netizen would do. Leif. -- Leif Madsen | Cloud Service Telemetry Architect OpenStack CloudOps Red Hat GPG: (D670F846) BEE0 336E 5406 42BA 6194 6831 B38A 291E D670 F846 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210709/3ab8b611/attachment-0005.html>