On 12/4/2020 12:35 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
Anecdata which is as 'useful' as any other.
Most of the people I have dealt with in the last 4 years with Server
have been using it mainly as a replacement for the Everything DVD and
because it was the most 'un-opinionated' release of Fedora. It wasn't
actually being used in any more of a server release as much as a 'get
out of my way' while still using Fedora.
For the people who were using it as servers, it was split between
getting ready for the next RHEL/CentOS they would be deploying, they
needed packages which were not in EPEL, or things like
python/nodejs/etc was new enough for what they needed to run but
wasn't in EL8.
It would be interesting to consider how Fedora Server use cases change
over time during an EL release cycle.
For many server use cases where the box is NOT ephemeral, when CentOS
and Fedora are similar, it's likely that CentOS is going to be a
better-engineered and tested option. But as time goes on and the next EL
release isn't either isn't announced or isn't stable enough to rely on,
Fedora Server probably sees more use as a quasi-stable release base..
This fills a real need when your users are absolutely clamoring for
things that aren't likely to be backported into the stable EL release
and you don't want to have to send them into Ubuntu/Debian land (or have
them grab an un-administered container off the shelf).
In fact, Fedora Server as a "not EL, but better than nothing as a
temporarily stable platform" during these later periods could be a
useful niche to fill. Bonus points for some of those extended support
duration/stable discussions from a few years ago.
Ultimately, however, I feel like the use case of Fedora Server is
inexorably tied to the RHEL/CentOS (or CentOS Stream) discussions. And a
Fedora WG that tries to do long-term planning and positioning needs to
be part of those overall discussions for the greater good of the RedHat
ecosystem. Short term marketing is fine, but the different sides of
RedHat need to be on the same page about this all.
-jc
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