We'll need to update the performance lab nodes (they are on Centos8
stream still), but that's not the end of the world.  Honestly I was
planning on doing it anyway sooner or later.

I do have some concerns similar to Anthony.  I know users who are still
running CentOS 7 in production and are just struggling to get off that.
We're pretty aggressive regarding needing Compiler/OS upgrades versus a
lot of projects out there and at times it feels somewhat unnecessary.

I guess my take is that there's a balancing act here.  If supporting
older distros is a major burden and blocker for future growth it makes
sense to drop them.  If we're dropping them because we want to chase
brand new C++ language features that are exciting and fun but not
fundamental for the project, that's less of a justification imho.

Mark


On 9/13/23 09:02, Casey Bodley wrote:
> now that Reef gives our users an upgrade path away from centos stream
> 8 and ubuntu 20.04, i propose that we drop support for those old
> distros from the S release. if there's agreement here, we can stop
> building/testing them on main asap
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