Thanks for the comments, Fred. I was hoping you were going to chime in.

The commentary on Hacker News and elsewhere is far gloomier than yours. I
hope you are correct.

Ryan

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:22 AM Fred Gleason <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Dec 8, 2020, at 19:46, Mike Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Not a popular decision, going by the comments on the post.
>
>
> I’m not actually sure that it’s The End of the World for Rivendell on
> CentOS just yet.
>
> A lot will depend on what exactly changes between CentOS 8 and CentOS 8
> Stream. At first look, it appears that CentOS is merely moving their
> release cycle to be just *ahead* of RHEL releases, instead of just *after*.
> If that’s truly all it is, and, all importantly, provided the CentOS 8 ABI
> is being held stable, then I see no reason *per se* that we couldn’t
> support Rivendell just fine on CentOS 8 Stream. I do know that there has
> been a lot of frustration within the CentOS Project about churn
> (particularly in the package management realm) from Upstream; this move to
> CentOS 8 Stream I suspect is an attempt to get a better handle on that
> problem by what might be called a ‘pre-emptive release’ strategy that
> allows them to better synchronize the state of their own port from Upstream.
>
> A lot will also depend on where EPEL lands with all of this. EPEL is part
> of Fedora (not CentOS), and has historically always based their builds on
> RHEL. Provided that the ABI is stable, it shouldn’t much matter, but the
> devil is in the details. I’ve sensed a bit of the same ‘churn angst’ WRT
> Upstream with many of the EPEL maintainers as well.
>
> We’ll see. Given that we don’t currently have a shipping CentOS 8
> integration, it’s definitely too early to panic. Indeed, holding off on
> that integration is starting to look like a rather fortuitous move.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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