On 03/31/2016 12:05 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > # # # +1 -- -- Josh Berkus Project Atomic Red Hat OSAS _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
