[CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Tue Dec 8 16:17:23 UTC 2020
Marc Balmer <marc at msys.ch>


> Am 08.12.2020 um 17:15 schrieb Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com>:
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> On 12/8/20 10:41 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:28:30AM -0500, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
>>>> You have published a CentOS Lifecycle that states the EOL for CentOS 8 is
>>>> May 2029. (c.f.
>>> https://endoflife.software/operating-systems/linux/centos).
>>>> CentOS Stream *is not* CentOS 8.
>>>> 
>>>> This announcement is a breach of that trust with your community, and
>>> could
>>>> be construed as a breach of contract with your users.
>>>> 
>>>> Save this change for CentOS 9.
>>> 
>>> Don't worry, it's been fixed.  :/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Don't worry. I saved a copy.
> 
> So did we. It's in Git.
> 
> That page was never a contract. It's a web page published by an open source project. Please do not misconstrue it as a contract.

Of course it was not a legally binding contract.  But we, the users, trusted you.  No we don't anymore.

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