perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Mark Feit <>]

Rivero, Victor writes:

 

So, we have a couple of questions.

 

https://www.perfsonar.net/post-2021-08-05-os-support.html

Want to ask you if there is already a full toolkit developed for Alma Linux.

 

Nothing special development-wise has been required for Alma; most of it has been minor changes to how it’s packaged.  We’re in the final stages of moving the entire project over to a new build system; it’s taken a lot of time but the payoff is an easier time building for new versions of the OSes we support.  When we release support for Alma 8, everything supported in CentOS 7 will be available.

 

https://www.perfsonar.net/releasenotes-2022-05-31-5-0-0b1.html

Or even on a Beta version, that we can install and test on our server.

 

Right now we’re working on making sure what we release for the OSes we currently support is stable.  The plan for Alma 8 is to finish that work and put it into beta sometime after we release 5.0.  It will become officially-supported once we get some feedback on how it’s working and correct any problems.  After that, the plan is to iterate again and support Alma 9 as well.

 

Do you have an estimated time for the release of perfSONAR 5.0?

 

We don’t.  If you were around for the transition from 3.5 to 4.0, you might remember that we did a couple of release candidates and then stepped back for several months to tune and re-think some things that weren’t where they needed to be.  We’re going through another one of those periods.  Our users have said they value stability over new releases, so we err on the side of that.

 

Sorry I don’t have better news on that front.  We’d like this thing out the door, too.  ;-)

 

--Mark