It'll take some time for all the fragments to coalesce, likely with some T1000-ing into larger projects while others lose steam as developers settle on a single option. Unfortunately, in the meantime consumers of CentOS are left to look at the field in the crystal ball and try to figure out which project to place their bet on (or just move to something else for a while and have a pint while the whole thing blows over). The good news is that things don't really become pressing until 2023, which gives some time for things to resolve.
It's the Circle Of Open Source. :)
This is so overblown. People now get "minor" version patches before RHEL instead of after and now people go nuts.
This is crazy. I'm sure only a handful of people really needs to follow after RHEL and not slightly before it.
In that sense, Fedora is considered civilization killer instability compared to CentOS Stream.
I was just starting towards a migration from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 when Red Hat made their announcement so I put that on hold and decided to stick with 7 for now.
In about six months or so, I'll look at which of these new RHEL 8 clones actually have something to show off and start making a decision from there. No point in chasing something which is currently vaporware and may still be half a year from now.
It also seems like CloudLinux has already been doing something like this internally so it shouldn't be an issue to get the project up and going. It will be interesting to see how they do vs Rocky.
This is what open source is all about. Personally I don't need it, but I love it.
The challenge anyway is not to rebuild packages or make packages it is to actually maintain the build farms and the build tools.
source: i work for Red Hat (not doing any packages work tho) and I used to work for Mandrakesoft on Linux-Mandrake when we were basically rebuild Red Hat rpms to our flavour.
