CentOS 9 came out ... ~~ 1.5 years ago? Arguably borderline for being considered obsolete. I'm not suggesting indefinitely, but I think we're sometimes too aggressive given corporate realities. > On Sep 13, 2023, at 13:13, Casey Bodley <cbodley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > thanks Anthony, > > users have had the opportunity to upgrade both during quincy and reef, > so this isn't forcing an instant decision. if you're concerned about > the future of centos, you can either stay on Reef or use our container > images or deb packages for S > > i don't think it's reasonable to expect the Ceph project to maintain > support for centos 8 indefinitely. long-term support has always been > the distro's responsibility > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 11:32 AM Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Too aggressive IMHO. Corporate deployments can't rev their OS instantly and lots of people have delayed going to 9 pending shakeout of the RH vs Rocky situation. >> >>> On Sep 13, 2023, at 10:02, Casey Bodley <cbodley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> now that Reef gives our users an upgrade path away from centos stream >>> 8 and ubuntu 20.04, i propose that we drop support for those old >>> distros from the S release. if there's agreement here, we can stop >>> building/testing them on main asap >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx >> > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
