It looks like a few forks are popping up already. A new project called
RockyLinux and now CloudLinux announced an RHEL fork today which sounds
promising:
https://blog.cloudlinux.com/announcing-open-sourced-community-driven-rhel-fork-by-cloudlinux

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:42 AM Jorick Astrego <jor...@netbulae.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Personally I don't really see the problem with the CentOS stream switch.
> Not trying to start a long discussion but I think it will be even be an
> improvement.
>
> Currently we use different combinations of EPEL, SCL, Elrepo etc. just
> to get some newer packages and a lot of people do the same and have no
> issues with this. oVirt even uses EPEL packages as dependency.
>
> Most of these will become redundant because of stream...
>
> Actually Red Hat has the same strategy for oVirt, it's an upstream for
> Red Hat Virtualization. So with the new CentOS strategy you will be one
> step ahead on OS and virtualization manager of the paid version.
>
> Testing is always required and with tooling like Katello you can push
> the packages after testing to production easily. If you need enterprise
> grade stability and support that much, then you should buy it or hire
> people to do it in house.
>
> Just my 2c as I see a lot of people getting really worked up about it.
>
> Jorick Astrego
>
> On 12/9/20 2:25 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
> >
> >> On 9 Dec 2020, at 01:21, thilb...@generalpacific.com wrote:
> >>
> >> I to would like to see if Ubuntu could become a bit more main stream
> with oVirt now that CentOS is gone. I'm sure we won't hear anything until
> 2021 the oVirt staff need to figure out what to do now.
> > Right now we’re happy that CentOS 8.3 is finally here. That aligns 4.4.3
> and 4.4.4 again, makes the 4.5 cluster level usable, tons of bug fixes.
> > Afterwards…well, I think Stream is not a bad option, we already have it
> in some form. I suppose it’s going to be the most feasible option.
> > For anything else *someone* would need to do all the work. And I don’t
> mean it in a way that we - all the people with @redhat.com address - are
> forbidden to do that or something, it’s really about the sheer amount of
> work and dedication required, doubling the integration efforts. oVirt is
> (maybe surprisingly) complex and testing it on any new platform means a lot
> of extra manpower.
> >
> >
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