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

Wed Mar 29 07:25:54 UTC 2023
Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org>

On 15/03/2023 19:26, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 13:11, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org 
> <mailto:arrfab at centos.org>> wrote:
> 
>     https://planet.centos.org <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/ <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
>     <http://www.centos.org> homepage
>     would fetch rss feed from blog.centos.org <http://blog.centos.org>,
>     instead of planet.centos.org <http://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.
> 

Yep .. so I'll just ensure that the only rss feed that will be used for 
content on website will be coming from https://blog.centos.org , and so 
then be able to shutdown planet.centos.org

-- 
Fabian Arrotin
The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
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