Jordan Pisaniello published an update and timeline on the upcoming RHEL based Rocky Linux.
Community Update - January 2021
Summary
In the three-plus weeks since our last community update, a lot has happened. Frustratingly–but also necessarily–for many of you, the progress we’ve made has been behind the scenes. We’ve been working diligently to setup the build infrastructure (our top priority), position ourselves to accept donations (huge thank you to those that have expressed interest), prepare to migrate from Slack to Mattermost, and sort out the necessary organizational structures to support the engineering efforts that will be going into Rocky Linux. We want to thank everyone that’s stayed up well into the early hours of the morning with us working on all of the above and more; it’s this kind of effort that constantly reminds us how remarkably dedicated and supportive this community is.
Timeline
In our previous update, we listed a number of items we were working on establishing dates for. We remain committed to delivering an initial release of Rocky Linux by Q2. Here’s some detail behind that:
- Build systems and infrastructure readiness - January 31
- Automatic package build infrastructures - January 31
- When the testing package repository will be made public - February 28
- Installer testing readiness - February 28
- ETA for length of time needed for community testing - March 31
- Release candidate availability - March 31
Community Update - January 2021
