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

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.



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