Red Hat had given a lifecycle for CentOS 8 with an EOL in 2029. IBM acquired Red Hat, and promptly announced they were reneging on this schedule. Given that the primary draw of CentOS/RHEL are long-term, reliable, well-supported, stable operating systems, users were... displeased.
CentOS stream is primarily intended to onboard users onto RHEL, which is undesirable when nobody trusts Red Hat to keep their word now.
Thanks! Can we see who updated the wiki? If it’s some random person, then I’m not sure it’s quite the smoking gun I’m looking for. If they are someone more closely associated with the project you’d expect to made decisions about this stuff, then that is very useful to know. Thank you!
I suppose people are trying to claim this wasn't actual CentOS policy, but it was, and when the project abruptly decided to truncate eight years of announced support, at no point did anyone involved deny this was a change.
CentOS stream is primarily intended to onboard users onto RHEL, which is undesirable when nobody trusts Red Hat to keep their word now.