+1 from me also. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Dusty Mabe <du...@dustymabe.com> wrote:
> > > On 03/31/2016 03:05 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > > On 03/31/2016 02:17 PM, Kushal Das wrote: > >> > >>>> Did we ever put a post up on fedmag about this? Can we do one now? > >> No iirc. We may want to do one. > > > > Hed: Retiring 32-bit Cloud Images > > > > Body: The Fedora Cloud Working Group has decided to retire the 32-bit > > Cloud images. As of the __ release, we will no longer produce the 32-bit > > images. We will, of course, continue to make 64-bit cloud images > available. > > > > Why are we doing this? We've been producing 32-bit images for years, and > > it's a solved problem, right? Surely it's as easy as "just keep doing > > it," right? > > > > Not so much. There are several reasons we're retiring them. First and > > foremost, our data suggests that 32-bit images are not that popular. > > That doesn't mean *no one* uses 32-bit images, but the user community > > for 32-bit only seems to be passingly small. > > > > The second reason is that 32-bit packages and images require their own > > testing. If it was as simple as a little bit of CPU time and disk space > > to produce images, we'd just keep doing it until the number of users hit > > zero. But it has a human cost in terms of time and opportunity lost > > doing one thing when we could do another. So we've chosen to focus on > > 64-bit images, working on making Atomic Host more awesome, and other > work. > > > > If you have questions, feel free to ask in #fedora-cloud on Freenode, or > > ask on cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org. > > > > # # # > > > > Thoughts? > > Looks good to me. > > Dusty > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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