On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 11:03, Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:29 AM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> We (The EPEL Steering Committee) are following up on EPEL issue 136[1] >> regarding the status of EPEL8 Playground. >> >> Looking through the logs we see that there are still people building against >> playground on a regular basis. But as I look into each of those packages, >> the same package is built in both epel8 and epel8-playground, at the same >> time. >> >> This leads me to believe that the only reason people are still building on >> playground is because they feel obligated to, not because they really need >> someplace to test things out. >> >> So, if anyone is still using epel8-playground for something they can't get >> from epel8-next and/or COPR, please let us know. Otherwise we will shut it >> down and call it an interesting experiment. > > > I really liked the idea when it was first implemented as it allowed me to > update some packages with breaking things for other users, but in practice I > didn't use it very much. > > TBH, $DAYJOB and $LIFE have gotten very busy for me so I have pulled back on > my EPEL packaging quite a bit, and now with all the craziness around CentOS > and 9 vs 9-next and 8 vs 8 Stream I just can't keep up with all the changes. > I read the emails, but I don't have the time to invest to get a clear picture > in my head of all the moving pieces. > > So 8 is EOL at the end of the year, but 8 Stream is not, correct?
CentOS-8 is EOL. EPEL-8 is not because there is RHEL-8, AlmaLinux-8, Oracle Linux 8, and Rocky Linux 8. CentOS-8 Stream should be around until ~2024 when RHEL-8 goes from doing regular rebases to its 'only doing security updates' til its EOL CentOS-9 Stream should be around until ~2027 when RHEL-9 goes from ... -- Stephen J Smoogen. Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
