I had the same thought before I read your e-mail; I thought this was sort of the whole point. Testing on RHEL would seem to be the worst of both worlds: problems aren’t fixed before they’d affect an RHEL install, and fixes on CentOS would then also be delayed.
What strikes me as even stranger about this is that IBM owns RedHat and also at least originally developed xCAT (not clear to me how involved they are now, though I see Nathan has an IBM e-mail address), so I guess you’d think at least strategy related to these somewhere between 1-3 organizations, depending on how you count, would be clear/not confusing. > On Jan 5, 2021, at 4:30 PM, Matt Ismail <matthew.ism...@warwick.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi Nate, > > Would it not make sense to focus development/testing efforts on CentOS > Stream, in order to have earlier xCAT support for the next (minor) > release of RHEL? I could be wrong, but that's what I had thought part of > what CentOS Stream was supposed to be for, i.e. a development target for > upcoming RHEL... > > Cheers, > Matt > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:01:42PM -0500, Nathan A Besaw wrote: >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:01:42 -0500 >> From: Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com> >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming >> X-Mailer: IBM Notes Release 9.0.1FP7 Octobe4, 2013 >> Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> >> >> SS, >> >> Prior to the announcement of CentOS Linux changing to CentOS Stream, the >> xCAT core team tested primarily with RHEL with minimal testing with CentOS. >> In most cases, any work needed to enable a release of RHEL would allow the >> associated CentOS release to function with minimal extra effort. >> The xCAT core team will continue to focus our testing efforts on xCAT >> integration with RHEL, but now that the release order of RHEL and CentOS is >> reversed, it is more likely that xCAT users of CentOS Stream will encounter >> problems first, before they have been addressed during RHEL testing. >> This is an area where the xCAT core team can use help from the xCAT >> community going forward. If support for CentOS Stream is of interest to the >> xCAT community, hopefully the community will be able to assist in resolving >> issues related to CentOS Stream. >> Ideally xCAT will continue to informally support CentOS Stream, but how >> well it is supported will be determined by community involvement and how >> large the gap is between CentOS Stream and RHEL. >> >> Regards, >> Nate >> >> >> >> From: Sajesh Singh <ssi...@amnh.org> >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Date: 12/23/2020 06:04 PM >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] xCAT and CentOS 8 Streaming >> >> >> >> Good day. Is there any documentation on what the supportability of xCAT >> will be on CentOS 8 Streaming once CentOS 8.3 has reached end of life? >> >> Thank you, >> >> SS >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >> >> >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> xCAT-user mailing list >> xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
