Hi all,
we would like to ask about interest in community about oVirt moving to CentOS Stream.
There were some requests before but it’s hard to see how many people would really like to see that.
With CentOS releases lagging behind RHEL for months it’s interesting to consider moving to CentOS Stream as it is much more up to date and allows us to fix bugs faster, with less workarounds and overhead for maintaining old code. E.g. our current integration tests do not really pass on CentOS 8.1 and we can’t really do much about that other than wait for more up to date packages. It would also bring us closer to make oVirt run smoothly on RHEL as that is also much closer to Stream than it is to outdated CentOS.
So..would you like us to support CentOS Stream?
The answer is yes, though I do not see any other option, if I'm not mistaken.
...this was sent under very different circumstances:) Now it seems to be an easier call...
We will be probably moving to Stream a bit more. We did it already, but since there was very little interest it’s not entirely working across automation, CI, release processes.
It does depend on all the dependencies we consume so don’t expect it to happen in a month, it’s probably going to take a while
To that note, there is also a possibility of oVirt on RHEL which some tried(or even use). It was not very helpful yet because again the dependencies are not really part of the OS and they are not being published in a way that we can consume them. But if this ever changes, it would be a good option for stable underlying OS and up-to-date oVirt….