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! > > > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | > | | Paravel Systems | > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > | A room without books is like a body without a soul. | > | | > | -- Cicero | > |---------------------------------------------------------------------| > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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