Il giorno lun 11 mag 2020 alle ore 08:50 Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com> ha scritto:

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:16 AM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com> wrote:

If you have followed the oVirt project for a few releases you already know oVirt has struggled to keep the pace with the fast innovation cycles Fedora Project is following.

Back in September 2019 CentOS project launched CentOS Stream as a rolling preview of future RHEL kernels and features, providing an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers that sits between Fedora and RHEL.

Since then the oVirt project tried to keep the software working on Fedora, CenOS Stream, and RHEL/CentOS but it became quickly evident the project lacked resources to keep the project running on three platforms. Further, our user surveys show that oVirt users strongly prefer using oVirt on CentOS and RHEL.

With the upcoming end of life of Fedora 30 the oVirt project has decided to stop trying to keep the pace with this amazing platform, focusing on stabilizing the software codebase on RHEL / CentOS Linux. By focusing our resources and community efforts on RHEL/CentOS Linux and Centos Stream, we can provide better support for those platforms and use more time for moving oVirt forward.

Where was this discussed?

There is nothing about this in devel@ovirt.org or any other public mailing list.

I think this is a big mistake. It will mainly harm development since Fedora is the only platform where

we can test early upstream changes, many months (and sometimes years) before the packages reach

RHEL/CentOS.

Nir

It has been discussed within team leads meeting and made clear by replies we keep giving when someone ask about Fedora.

See "[ovirt-users] install oVirt on Fedora31", "[ovirt-users] oVirt orb python3/fedora 31 support".

This doesn't mean that individual developers can try to get their packages working on Fedora or test their code on Fedora.

This means that we are not committed to keep trying to support Fedora as a project.

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Sandro Bonazzola

MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV

Red Hat EMEA

sbonazzo@redhat.com   

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