Dear all, On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 02:18:48AM +0200, Leon Fauster via CentOS-devel wrote: > On 09.07.21 17:41, Carl George wrote: > > I disagree with the suggestion that participation is required to use > > CentOS Stream. It's certainly recommended, but I have had multiple > > people tell me personally that they switched from CL8 to CS8 and > > forgot they did it and didn't notice a difference. They didn't file > > bugs, they didn't participate in IRC or the mailing list, they just > > used it and it was fine. CS8 hasn't been a constant thorn for them. > > I'm not claiming it's been perfect, there have certainly been > > regressions, but they are fixed faster than they ever were in CL8 (or > > previous major versions) and I strongly feel that most users will be > > best served by getting switched to CS8 at or just after the CL8 EOL. > > > Hands on - I tried to switch some workstations to CS8 like it would be > done at the end of the year. The next monday would bring me angry users > into my "virtual" office because there applications does not run > anymore. What happens? > Applications from 3rd party repos like RPM Fusion that link against > "qt5-qtbase(x86-64) = 5.12.5" do not have any providers anymore > (CS8 got an upgrade to 5.15.2. So, like EPEL it seems that > everything else needs also a -next branch (just kidding). > What would be new in 8.6? That will be state of CS8 at the end > of the year? > This seems to be worth discussing with RPM Fusion developers. With CentOS 8 going EOL at the end of the year, it's likely that a substantial portion of the userbase will end up on CentOS Stream. What would it take to have a `-next` overlay repo for packages that need to be rebuilt for Stream for rpmfusion free and nonfree? Best regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@michel-slm.name -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20210711/bd486def/attachment-0005.sig>