All/any,
Realistically, since CentOS Stream doesn't have minor versions, I'm
not really sure how you *could* support it. It would be like supporting
CentOS 7.0-7.9, but not knowing which version someone is running. You'd
have to only support the "latest" version as of <date/time>, which might
be chaos.
Both Rocky and Alma have fairly decent corporate backers, at least
for the immediate term. (Alma being their parent company pledging
1M/year at least until 2029 to finish out the 8 release cycle, and Rocky
has about 2M/year at the moment, but could flex more.)
Even Oracle, with their RHEL rebuild could be used in a similar
manner, though I'd probably not recommend them due to their long track
record of open-source interactions being less-than-ideal.
Perhaps ACS can just pick one of the rebuilds (E.g. Rocky), but
actually publish stuff as just "EL" like EPEL does? It shouldn't really
matter, aside from /etc/os-release files and such. Perhaps ACS can do
what many utilities do and make a "OS Family" determination (Ref:
puppet, ansible, etc.) Instead of a strict "exact same" OS requirement.
Thanks,
-Nathan McGarvey
On 12/16/21 10:40 AM, Nicolas Vazquez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> CentOS 8 will reach EOL on 31st December this year -
> https://www.centos.org/centos-linux-eol/
>
> Opening this thread for discussion on the actions needed: should we drop
> support on the next 4.16.1 release and onwards?
>
> Regards,
> Nicolas Vazquez
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