On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > _ Maybe not a contract, but clearly CentOS set that timeline in the past and has now abandoned it, on extremely short notice, and that is a major breach of trust. Changing a product timeline BY EIGHT YEARS is a huge, huge change, and it completely erodes any confidence your community has in you. I respectfully request this change be postponed until CentOS 9 and announced as such from the beginning. > _____________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>