[CentOS-devel] RFC (Request for Comments) : future of https://planet.centos.org

Wed Mar 15 18:26:56 UTC 2023
Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen at redhat.com>

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 13:11, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wrote:

> https://planet.centos.org was deployed a long time ago to aggregate
> feeds from various centos contributors and it was migrated from centos
> release to centos newer release, as planet (python2 based app) was easy
> to just rebuild.
>
> Now that CentOS Linux 7 will go EOL next year, and that
> https://blog.centos.org/ (linked to SSO) seems to be the only source for
> blog posts, I'd like to consider just decommissioning that planet
> instance, and the "Around CentOS" section of www.centos.org homepage
> would fetch rss feed from blog.centos.org, instead of planet.centos.org
> (just acting as a MITM these days)
>
> Opinions, thoughts ?
>
>
I don't see this providing a large value at the moment. It has been a good
run, but I think people writing blogs etc themselves are much smaller and
fewer than needed to keep it going.



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