[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] oVirt and Fedora

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:16 AM Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; 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(a)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