We (OSUOSL) also heavily rely on RDO and would like to see it continue. We also have limited resources, however, I might be able to dedicate a few students to working on this with the help of some community mentors.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM Amy Marrich <[email protected]> wrote: > If you all are willing to volunteer, and/or help find other volunteers, I > will try to find folks to mentor you to get you started to keep the RPMs > going. Unfortunately, I have already spoken to folks in both Alma and > Rocky, a year ago and again this weekend at a conference, to see if they > could assist and they do not have the resources. > > There was previously a small team of 2-3 engineers working on RDO but as > mentioned in the release announcement email they moved on to other > positions. > > Amy > > > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM Francesco Di Nucci < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you, >> >> is it possible to try again to search for volunteers before abandoning >> definitively the RPM packages? Less diversity is a loss for everyone, and >> maybe people did not fully realize the situation (me including, didn't read >> the announcement email as I'm still running Caracal 😅). Cross-posting >> with other mailing lists/IRC/ops meetings could be useful, and if the >> alternative is RPM discontinuation, more people might be interested. >> >> If I can ask, how many people would (ideally) be necessary/how many RPMs >> are around? >> >> Francesco >> On 06/03/26 17:14, Amy Marrich wrote: >> >> Francesco, Massimo, Jose, >> >> We would love help from the other communities to continue creating the >> RPMS. We put a call out for volunteers over a year ago[0]. and while folks >> replied that they wanted to help or attended a meeting no one actually >> started helping. As a result, we added an important note to the bottom of >> the Epoxy release announcement[1] explaining that internal developers had >> moved on and we again said we needed help and to reach out if interested. >> >> Amy >> >> 0 - >> https://lists.rdoproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/6X5DTJG5ZLKV5LZC5BVQY7ROQBV55XTV/ >> 1 - >> https://lists.rdoproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2O4U2QL5WLAMPW2B225MLYQEEYQCREP2/ >> >> I'll also send this to the OpenStack list but respecting Jeremy's >> decoupling of lists. >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:12 AM Francesco Di Nucci < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> given that RDO will soon stop releasing RPMs of OpenStack, it has been >>> suggested on IRC etc that AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux communities might be >>> interested in building the RPMs instead, is there already a discussion >>> about it? >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Francesco Di Nucci >>> >>> -- >>> Francesco Di Nucci >>> System Administrator >>> Compute & Networking Service, INFN Naples >>> >>> Email: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s >> >> To unsubscribe: %(_internal_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s >> >> _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s > > To unsubscribe: %(_internal_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s > -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
_______________________________________________ dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s To unsubscribe: %(_internal_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s
