> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 7:19 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > >> [...] >> In the cases where RHEL + 0.1 (note not +1) won't work, I think it's >> incredibly likely that this will be covered by the expanded low- and >> no-cost >> RHEL offerings. >> >> Part of the buried lede here is that with more RHEL accessibility, a lot >> of >> the function that CentOS served for users will not be necessary anymore. >> [...] > > > If RH plans to release a successor for CentOS 8 like RHEL 8 Free or so, > this has become a communication disaster par excellence. The announcement > with all the associated uncertainties and criticism was already picked up > by the major press. I've no clue who is in charge of RH for the > communication, but the team was quite bad in their job. > > If I plan something like this I would say, listen, CentOS will be released > as Stream only in the future but the deprecated CentOS versions will be > replaced by X. Before we do this change we'll provide to you a script that > transforms your current CentOS installation into the designated successor. Do you mean something like this? https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos2ol.sh > I'm quite relaxed as I don't use CentOS anymore except for private stuff. > But I can fully understand those who already upgraded to C8 with the > assumption in mind that they can use CentOS for the next few years with > the > expected behaviour. > > Changes are part of the IT and maybe the situation won't become as > dramatic > as the one or other may fear (especially if a kind of RHEL 8 Free will be > released), but the communication around this change is a perfect example > how you shouldn't do the communication. > > Kind regards Thomas > -- > Linux ... enjoy the ride! > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >