[CentOS-devel] status of CentOS Linux 7 usage in centos infra (please read)

Wed Nov 15 03:50:00 UTC 2023
Mike Rochefort <mroche at omenos.dev>

> The potential impact when we'll just decommission mirrorlist.centos.org
> is for SIGs building for RHEL (and not Stream) 8 and so still relying on
> mirrorlist= in their shipped .repo.
> The list of impacted SIGs should be really small and as the content
> itself will probably moved to mirror.stream.centos.org, there will be a
> different thread to discuss how to do that

I've been wondering what the plan for CentOS Stream content has been for 
a while. Though since CentOS Stream 8 will EOL before CentOS Linux 7, I 
guess it's a moot point and only EL8 SIGs supporting RHEL will be 
relevant to move off of m.c.o.

> # CentOS Forums (https://forums.centos.org)
> We discussed this already in the past (on this list and elsewhere) :
> while we can quickly migrate that service to newer stack, the underlying
> question was more about current moderators saying that nobody will
> maintain that service after June 2024. So in the current situation,
> we'll just decommission the forums in 2024 with no replacement.
> Should the situation change between now and June 2024, we'd be able to
> migrate (or not) the service.

Should we be taking this opportunity to promote and direct CentOS Stream 
users to the CentOS category on the Fedora Discussion[0] platform? 
Similar to the Asahi Linux category, we could pitch up sub-topics to 
filter Project discussion and community support.

While instant messaging and email platforms are available, I believe 
having an easier point of entry for longer lived and easily searchable 
material is a benefit to the community at large. Letting it passively 
wither or just outright decommissioning the platform without a similar 
service is not an ideal situation. Instant messaging is easy to get lost 
in and lose track of important discussions even with available 
*in-platform* search, and email is... well I don't think the vast 
majority of people on the net care for it that much or know how to use 
it "correctly". Maybe migrating to a HyperKitty platform like 
lists.fp.o[1] could help with that?

> # centos linux 7 buiders (infra)
> Not publicly visible but pretty obvious that we'll just keep that infra
> running until CentOS Linux 7 EOL and then we'll just decommission it
> entirely (as we'll not have to care about building/shipping anything for
> centos linux 7

If there are hardware resources involved, would they be wholly 
decommissioned or repurposed for CentOS Stream + SIG usage?

[0] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/c/neighbors/centos
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/

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Mike Rochefort