2:22 p.m.
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 2:16 AM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)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.
This is a *humongous* mistake. Almost *everything* with virtualization and
storage *starts* in Fedora. And there are some configurations that will
*not* be possible in CentOS Stream because of the nature of it.
As far as the oVirt software keeping up with Fedora, the main problem here
has always been that people aren't integrating their software into the
distribution itself. That's how everything can get tested together. And
this comes back to the old bug about fixing vdsm so that it doesn't use
/rhev, but instead something FHS-compliant (RHBZ#1369102
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1369102>). Once that is resolved, pretty much
the entire stack can go into Fedora. And then you benefit from the Fedora
community being able to use, test, and contribute to the oVirt project. As
it stands, why would anyone do this for you when you don't even run on the
cutting edge platform that feeds into Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
It also seems like the oVirt folks are not learning from the mistakes of
the RDO project. They gave up on Fedora several years ago, and wound up
spending close to two years playing catchup on Python 3, DNF, modularity,
virtualization packaging changes, storage APIs, and everything else all at
once. They ground to a *halt.* They paid a price for not keeping up. And
their excuse of unaligned lifecycles stopped being true more than two years
ago, when OpenStack's release cycles aligned on Fedora's again. They also
proved that Fedora's "churn" wasn't the problem because when push comes
to
shove, they were able to do something based on Fedora 28 (knowing it was
the base for RHEL 8).
CentOS Stream is worthless in most respects because you aren't really
testing or integrating anything new most of the time, you're just making
new releases of your software on a stale platform. Again, the purpose of
CentOS Stream is to provide a window into the RHEL stream development,
which by the nature of things isn't very useful for future-proofing.
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