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Comment by throwaway562if1 | Hacker News Reader

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.

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> Red Hat had given a lifecycle for CentOS 8 with an EOL in 2029

I thought that neither Red Hat nor CentOS foundation gave a lifecycle date for CentOS 8. Can you help me find that lifecycle statement?

https://web.archive.org/web/20201101131417/https://wiki.cent...

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!

It seems that page was written by Christoph Galuschka which was not an Red Hat employee at that time.

Christoph is a volunteer, but definitely part of the CentOS team, and in fact was a member of the wiki admin group: https://web.archive.org/web/20200721015106/https://wiki.cent....

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.

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