Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-17 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 12/17/2020 9:29 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/13/20 3:25 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:05:42 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a day on it. not

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/14/20 10:52 AM, Phelps, Matthew wrote: ... The main issue against using Fedora in production environments is the short lifecycle. Forcing an upgrade, and all the associated testing, auditing, etc. of the base version every year or so is not tenable for most organizations. Indeed. 

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/13/20 3:25 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:05:42 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a day on it. not like Debian for instance No, not at all

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-17 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 05:25:16PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > ... snip ... > Today, CentOS is a release stage after Stage 5 described above. The CentOS > maintainers begin work on a minor release after that release is available to > RHEL consumers, and the process of rebuilding those packages

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-15 Thread Anthony K
On 13/12/20 7:15 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for the same reasons that Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-15 Thread Anthony K
On 14/12/20 6:56 am, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about "silent majority", right? Ever though why it is

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-14 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:37 AM Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:00:24AM -0700, James Szinger wrote: > > > > > > Using Fedora on production servers is like climbing without a rope. > > > > > > It's possible. I've even seen some folks do it. > > > > Since the release of CentOS

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:00:24AM -0700, James Szinger wrote: > > > > Using Fedora on production servers is like climbing without a rope. > > > > It's possible. I've even seen some folks do it. > > Since the release of CentOS 8, I have been moving my stuff over to > Fedora. The combination of

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-14 Thread James Szinger
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:15:52 +0100 Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > > Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going > > to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for > > the same reasons that Fedora is a better

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:11:58PM +0200, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 13/12/2020 9:44 μ.μ., Simon Avery wrote: > > > There are 4,606 people on their Slack right now > > ...which, by the way, is being acquired by SalesForce! > > Find a successor of Slack!  OT excuse to rant, because I get so

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Jack Bailey via CentOS
I'm just trying to determine whether you were making the argument you intended to, because you are literally suggesting that the majority is silent, and the people who are silent are the ones that are happy with something. Silence doesn't confer anything. People can be displeased,

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/13/20 1:32 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 12/13/20 8:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:06:50PM +, Simon Avery wrote: > > Can't say I'm really appreciating the trolling in this list. It's to be expected. What I find surprising is the shilling for RH and this decision that I am seeing. Oh well, such is life. -- Seek not to follow in the footsteps

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Simon Avery
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 19:56, Gordon Messmer wrote: > So, the majority of users are silent, because they're happy? Cool. > Can't say I'm really appreciating the trolling in this list. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/13/20 8:56 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on >> the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You >> heard about "silent majority", right? Ever though why

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 12/13/20 1:25 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:05:42 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a day on it. not like Debian for instance d The workflow

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 13/12/2020 9:44 μ.μ., Simon Avery wrote: There are 4,606 people on their Slack right now ...which, by the way, is being acquired by SalesForce! Find a successor of Slack!  Nick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Dave Stevens
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 21:05:42 +0100 Rainer Duffner wrote: > It’s also not often the case that you can split this kind of work > into a thousand work-packages and have everybody just work 1/2 hour a > day on it. not like Debian for instance d ___

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Rainer Duffner
> Am 13.12.2020 um 20:44 schrieb Simon Avery : > >> >>> And there's *a lot* more than five of us. >> >> Here is number six. >> > > Just one of those groups energised from this decision is Rocky Linux. There > are 4,606 people on their Slack right now, which did not even exist a week > ago.

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:56:05AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Your memory is still rusty.  Early accusations were that this would impact > developers (such as Oracle) who were adding additional patches to the > kernel, or other maintenance.  It never impacted "clones" like CentOS at > all.

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/13/20 2:45 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: When people are happy with something they do not voice their content on the mailing list, mailing list is only to voice your discontent. You heard about "silent majority", right? Ever though why it is called that? So, the majority of users are

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Simon Avery
> > > And there's *a lot* more than five of us. > > Here is number six. > Just one of those groups energised from this decision is Rocky Linux. There are 4,606 people on their Slack right now, which did not even exist a week ago. Yeah, it's more than five.

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer via CentOS
> Am 13.12.2020 um 19:53 schrieb Phelps, Matthew : > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:48 PM Gordon Messmer > wrote: > >>> On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >>> And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL >>> trustworthy enough to use it for production,

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Phelps, Matthew
On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 11:48 PM Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > > And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL > > trustworthy enough to use it for production, even without "official > > endorsement". > > > Exactly. That's

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 12/13/20 5:48 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL >> trustworthy enough to use it for production, even without "official >> endorsement". > > > Exactly.  That's why it's so

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 13/12/2020 6:48 π.μ., Gordon Messmer wrote: Red Hat is giving us the thing that has been requested more often, by more people, than any other change in CentOS, and the result is that the press is full of stories about users being angry, because five people on the mailing lists sent a lot

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/12/2020 à 18:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > I'll repeat what I said earlier, CentOS has never offered the things people > are > complaining about losing.  They've never asked for your trust and confidence. For the last 16 years, the explicit scope of the CentOS project has been to rebuild

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/12/2020 à 02:25, Gordon Messmer a écrit : > Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going to make > CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for the same reasons > that Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat Linux was. Using Fedora on production

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-12 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 13.12.2020 11:48, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL >> trustworthy enough to use it for production, even without "official >> endorsement". > > > Exactly.  That's why it's so

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 9:56 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: And I will repeat that millions of CentOS users found free clone of RHEL trustworthy enough to use it for production, even without "official endorsement". Exactly.  That's why it's so weird that those people, today, think that CentOS Stream

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Kay Schenk
On 12/11/20 12:23 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO won't lie. Citing him: "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers. It

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/11/20 8:00 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: how could you ask trust and confidence with something like that: I'll repeat what I said earlier, CentOS has never offered the things people are complaining about losing.  They've never asked for your trust and confidence.  Both Red Hat and the

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Sergio Belkin
El vie, 11 dic 2020 a las 12:33, Matthew Miller () escribió: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:23:59AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >This is not a production operating system." > > Does he say that CentOS is a production operating system? > > > > As far as I know, Red Hat has never endorsed

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 4:33 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:23:59AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >This is not a production operating system." > > Does he say that CentOS is a production operating system? > > > > As far as I know, Red Hat has never endorsed running

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:23:59AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >This is not a production operating system." > Does he say that CentOS is a production operating system? > > As far as I know, Red Hat has never endorsed running CentOS in > production, so I don't understand why it's significant

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 11/12/20 12:59, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS ha scritto: On 11.12.2020 17:41, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Il 11/12/20 10:24, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS ha scritto: My primary objection is breach of trust. RH shouldn't have lied at least to CentOS community. Other bug-to-bug compatible

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 11.12.2020 17:41, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Il 11/12/20 10:24, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS ha scritto: >> My primary objection is breach of trust. RH shouldn't have lied at least >> to CentOS community. >> >> Other bug-to-bug compatible RHEL clones will replace the CentOS, so this >> is the

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 11/12/20 10:24, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS ha scritto: My primary objection is breach of trust. RH shouldn't have lied at least to CentOS community. Other bug-to-bug compatible RHEL clones will replace the CentOS, so this is the part I am less worried about. If someone is happy with

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 11.12.20 um 09:23 schrieb Gordon Messmer: On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO won't lie. Citing him: "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers. It

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 11.12.2020 15:23, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: >> Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO >> won't lie. Citing him: >> >> "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for >> ecosystem

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/10/20 6:28 PM, Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS wrote: Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO won't lie. Citing him: "To be exact, CentOS Stream is an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers. It will be updated several times a day. So, like

Re: [CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-10 Thread Konstantin Boyandin via CentOS
On 11.12.2020 08:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: [...] > For practical purposes, CentOS Stream will need to be fully patched for > compatibility purposes, just like CentOS is, and will be equally suited > for production purposes. Allow me to disagree. We both trust Chris Wright's words, don't we? CTO

[CentOS] I'm looking forward to the future of CentOS Stream

2020-12-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Personally, I think that changing focus on CentOS Stream is going to make CentOS (and maybe even RHEL) better in the same way and for the same reasons that Fedora is a better distribution than Red Hat Linux was. CentOS Stream should fix the biggest problems that CentOS has had in the past,