Hey all, I'd like to publish this to the magazine early next week. Any objections, or preferences on date? Halp with image also appreciated.
Best, jzb -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [DRAFT] Why we're retiring 32-bit Images (was Re: Retiring 32-bit images) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:05:10 -0400 From: Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Red Hat (Open Source and Standards) To: [email protected] On 03/31/2016 02:17 PM, Kushal Das wrote: > >> > Did we ever put a post up on fedmag about this? Can we do one now? > No iirc. We may want to do one. Hed: Retiring 32-bit Cloud Images Body: The Fedora Cloud Working Group has decided to retire the 32-bit Cloud images. As of the __ release, we will no longer produce the 32-bit images. We will, of course, continue to make 64-bit cloud images available. Why are we doing this? We've been producing 32-bit images for years, and it's a solved problem, right? Surely it's as easy as "just keep doing it," right? Not so much. There are several reasons we're retiring them. First and foremost, our data suggests that 32-bit images are not that popular. That doesn't mean *no one* uses 32-bit images, but the user community for 32-bit only seems to be passingly small. The second reason is that 32-bit packages and images require their own testing. If it was as simple as a little bit of CPU time and disk space to produce images, we'd just keep doing it until the number of users hit zero. But it has a human cost in terms of time and opportunity lost doing one thing when we could do another. So we've chosen to focus on 64-bit images, working on making Atomic Host more awesome, and other work. If you have questions, feel free to ask in #fedora-cloud on Freenode, or ask on [email protected]. # # # Thoughts? Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier | Community Team, OSAS [email protected] | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ -- Joe Brockmeier | Community Team, OSAS [email protected] | http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/
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