Re: Choice of distribution for new sourceware.org server?

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>]

Hi -

> >> How much non-distro software is there on sourceware?
> > Well, quite a bit.
> 
> If non-distro softare impacts our maintenance costs, should we be evaluating
> the list of non-distro software for value vs. cost?

We evaluate regularly.  It's not just software that substitutes for
distro bits (there's only a bit of that).  Remember things like
multiple wikis, bugzilla.


> >> When you say "activity" do you mean that users would be impacted
> >> once every 8 months for a small window of downtime?
> > 
> > Probably, if nothing goes wrong.  And if there's an incompatible
> > rebase of python or php or whatever, then we (?) have to fix the
> > thing.  There is a downside to upgrade churn, in terms of our
> > manpower.
> 
> Best practice is to have a production and development server to
> avoid these kinds of problems and shake out such changes.
> Do we have 2 servers now?

rawhide level upgrade churn has to bring tangible value that is in
excess of the costs (to all the parties, not just users).


> In which case RHEL8 with ELS as an option is even more valuable?

> In summary:
> - Why not stick with RHEL8 to get ELS and avoid CentOS 8 early phase out.

Already said I'll look into moving from centos8 to rhel8.  centos
lifespan does not look materially different from rhel.


- FChE