CentOS no longer downstream of RHEL

[Peter Schober]

* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2020-12-09 14:28]:
> There is some talk already of a revolt and some people standing up a
> new fork of course, but it's probably not realistic.

There's mention of the Rocky Linux CentOS fork in the context of
(internal) "project infrastructure"
https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEV/blog/2021/10/12/2842951701/October+2021+Update
but of course that doesn't mean that Rocky Linux will now be the
primary platform to build and test on.

But will Rocky Linux be(come) the primary platform to build and test on? ;)

You mentioned a changed workflow...

> that should allow use of real RHEL to produce packages

But the only service I wanted to closely follow SP releases is our
federated Demo SP service (displaying recieved attributes and
assertions) and I won't be runing RHEL just for that.

What are the project's plans with regard to officially supported
platforms after the end of the year (coinciding with the end of CentOS
Linux)?
https://shibboleth.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SP3/pages/2067399657/SystemRequirements

Of course I can just pick Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux or whatever and
simply assume that things work (given that it's still only a rebuild
of RHEL).
(For this service it doesn't matter all that much, even including
complete breakage for some time.)

Best,
-peter