Rocky makes sense to me as the next step after Centos8

--Eric

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 1:20 PM ocket 8888 <ocket8...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, that sounds great to me. As far as I'm concerned, this is all the
> discussion necessary to move forward. I'm just saying I can't demand
> that our project support any particular OS on my own without talking
> about it with the list.
>
> To be clear, I was definitely never going to suggest Alma - not the
> least because I couldn't remember the name - or anything else. Rocky
> seems like the right choice. And by "going to 7 does sound like moving
> backwards" I didn't mean to drop support for CentOS 7, just that
> testing on only CentOS 7 instead of updating our CentOS 8 images to
> Rocky seemed like the wrong call. I don't think we need to drop
> support for that even after being comfortable with Rocky, until it
> hits EoL and/or becomes an inconvenience to support.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:33 AM Dave Neuman <neu...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > +1 to retaining support for 7 until we are good with Rocky.  Now *that* is
> > something that we can decide as a community.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:31 AM Rawlin Peters <raw...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > We should probably retain support for CentOS 7 until such a time that
> > > we're comfortable with Rocky going forward. I do think Rocky is the
> > > future (at least for Comcast that seems to be the case). It's really
> > > Rocky vs Alma, and if someone wants to add support for Alma in
> > > addition to Rocky and can maintain that support, they should be free
> > > to do so.
> > >
> > > - Rawlin
> > >
> > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:21 AM ocket 8888 <ocket8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, going to 7 does sound like moving backwards - we don't want to
> > > > do that, we want to move to whatever is going to be supported now that
> > > > CentOS 8 no longer works. The issue is that we need to know that Rocky
> > > > Linux is what the ATC project will support if we're going to use it
> > > > moving forward, and the working group does not have the authority to
> > > > make that call.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:39 AM Dave Neuman <neu...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > - Need mailing list confirmation that moving to Rocky is the plan,
> > > > > then our CI can be converted to Rocky Linux
> > > > >
> > > > > Do we though?  Can't we just put in support for Rocky and if folks 
> > > > > want
> > > > > support for other things they could add it?
> > > > > Seems like going to 7 is going backwards for what reason?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:35 AM ocket 8888 <ocket8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > 1. Attendance
> > > > > > - Stephen Hamrick
> > > > > > - Zach Hoffman
> > > > > > - Eric Holguin
> > > > > > - Matt Jackson
> > > > > > - Srijeet Chatterjee
> > > > > > - Taylor Frey
> > > > > > 2. CentOS 8 Docker image no longer works
> > > > > > - Should we make a workaround or switch to e.g. Rocky Linux ?
> > > > > > - Probably depends on overall project direction, but that
> > > conversation
> > > > > > takes longer than fixing our CI
> > > > > > - Issue #6343 needs to be fixed before we could downgrade to only
> > > > > > testing on CentOS 7
> > > > > > - Need mailing list confirmation that moving to Rocky is the plan,
> > > > > > then our CI can be converted to Rocky Linux
> > > > > > 3. ML: ATCv6.1.0-RC2 needs votes
> > > > > > - Currently has 2 PMC +1s
> > > > > > 4. ML: Summer of Code 2022
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:21 AM Zach Hoffman <zrhoff...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Consider discussing:
> > > > > > > - CentOS 8 no longer works, which breaks our CI. Time to move to
> > > Rocky
> > > > > > Linux?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Active mailing list threads:
> > > > > > > - Release Apache Traffic Control 6.1.0-RC2
> > > > > > > <https://lists.apache.org/thread/soqqndn7ggzrzjx5s81t7c09yzovll6h>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:44 AM ocket 8888 <ocket8...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > If you have anything you want to discuss at next week's meeting,
> > > > > > > > respond to this email and it's on the agenda.
> > > > > >
> > >

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