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2022-01 CentOS board meeting Attendees Board members Thomas Oulevey Tru Huynh Brian Exelbierd Pat Riehecky Davide Cavalca Josh Boyer Mike McLean Johnny Hughes Guests Jack Aboutboul Shaun McCance Lance Albertson Neal Gompa Matthew Miller Christoph Galuschka Leslie Hawthorn Jonathan Billings Brian Stinson Amy Marrich 22h03 Agenda Previous minutes https://blog.centos.org/2022/01/december-2021-board-meeting-minutes/ (Posted late.) Seat new directors [Rich] - […]
January 2022 Newsletter Project News The big news, of course, is that CentOS Linux 8 reached End Of Life on Friday, December 31, 2021. The CentOS Project recommends that you migrate existing CentOS Linux 8 installations to CentOS Stream: dnf swap centos-linux-repos centos-stream-repos dnf distro-sync Upcoming events The first CentOS Dojo of 2022 is scheduled […]
Note: Posting late, as we appear to have overlooked posting these after the December meeting. Note: The November board meeting didn't happen due to scheduling conflicts, so there are no minutes for that month. Attendees Board members Pat Riehecky Thomas Oulevey Rich Bowen Davide Cavalca Tru Huynh Mike Jim Bex Josh Boyer joined at :30 […]
CentOS Hyperscale SIG Quarterly Report for 2021Q4 This report covers work that happened between October 2nd and December 31st. For previous work, see the 2021Q3 report. Purpose The Hyperscale SIG focuses on enabling CentOS Stream deployment on large-scale infrastructures and facilitating collaboration on packages and tooling. Membership update Since the last update, the SIG gained […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, As we approach the end of 2021, I wanted to thank all of you who have worked so hard this year towards the betterment of the project. This year we've made governance more transparent, welcomed several new SIGs, made big strides in consolidating infrastructure with Fedora where it made sense, and begun […]
The CentOS Project is delighted to announce the availability of CentOS Stream 9, the latest major release of the CentOS Stream distribution. What’s Great About CentOS Stream CentOS Stream is Continuous CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Before a package is formally introduced to CentOS Stream, it undergoes […]
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2111, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Source Code. **PLEASE NOTE:** CentOS Linux 8 will EOL on 31 December 2021. We will handle […]
You may recall that CPE ran a requirements session to figure out a future home for storing our source code. Gitlab was chosen as the destination based on the varied requirements. Over the past year, CentOS Stream has been developed through Gitlab. We used this period of time to test the workflows and we are […]
Dear CentOS enthusiast, It’s been another busy month in the CentOS project. Here’s some of the highlights from around the community. Project News Karanbir ‘KB’ Singh On October 18th, we had the historic news that project lead and long-term Board of Directors member Karanbir “KB” Singh will resign from the Board, effective immediately. If you’ve been […]
2021-10 CentOS board meeting Attendees Board members Brian “bex” Exelbierd Thomas Oulevey Davide Cavalca Jim Perrin Tru Huynh Mike McLean Josh Boyer Directors Absent Pat Riehecky Karanbir Singh Johnny Hughes Guests Shaun McCance Matthias Runge Lance Albertson Brian Stinson Alfredo ** 22h05 ** Agenda Previous minutes https://blog.centos.org/2021/09/minutes-for-centos-board-of-directors-for-2021-09-08/ On going discussion Nothing to report. Issues https://git.centos.org/centos/board/issues […]