Hi:
I have used AlmaLinux about a week and installed several machines. Now I am worried about AlmaLinux bugs. What I mean “AlmaLinux bugs” is base on RHEL as a gold standard. If something doesn’t work on both AlmaLinux and RHEL, then it is not an AlmaLinux bug. If something works on RHEL but not on AlmaLinux, then I think it is an “AlmaLinux bug” and need to be fixed.
I thought the quality of AlmaLinux is like Scientific Linux since CERN is involved. Scientific Linux maintainer was very responsive and the distribution was great.
I check https://bugs.almalinux.org, there are only 5 bugs which are fixed/closed for AlmaLinux 10. The response is becoming silent day by day.
I wonder if there is any situation about AlmaLinux team? I can afford tuxcare for AlmaLinux support. But I don’t know if they have the right or interest to fix AlmaLinux bugs.
I found the forum post often get replied by “redadmin”. I thought the great guy is from AlmaLinux, but it seems not the case.
So the shock truth is, nobody from AlmaLinux team would check forum/bugzilla regularly. I can understand that, but at least someone should do the response/filter work, or the places is useless for AlmaLinux improvement.
Take this as an example. elrepo is an important repository to EL. but the voice from the elrepo maintainer was ignored for several months. until someone transferred the voice to somewhere which has real developers.
Thank you for your feedback. First, I want to clarify one point: I am not a member of the AlmaLinux team or Foundation staff. I’m simply a community user responding to the best of my knowledge, and I can’t make definitive statements regarding the project’s current status.
Hi:
Yes I understand. I admire people like you who help others. The problem is AlmaLinux build unnecessary large infrastructure. I found there are at least: web forum, bugzilla ,email-list, reddit group, github, irc and chat.
I found developers would only focus on some github repository and chat channel. even github and chat there are too many repositories/channels to stay.
In old days with Scientific Linux, we only have unofficial web forum and official email list. you got usage support at forum and you got bug fix via email list.
I know no one from AlmaLinux will see this. So I think I will leave and try tuxcare.
You probably should ask at the chat as they seem to be more active there. (If I count the bugs right, then there are only about five in the team that has addressed the bugs.)
AlmaLinux did start after Red Hat did announce that CentOS would “shift focus”. One has to be visible to attract users, if is a new kid on the block. Hence the presence on multiple channels. Naturally, everyone cannot be everywhere all the time. Not even most of the time.
Some of them do peek on the various channels occasionally. Hence, you do not know for sure – there is no “the devs will not visit Y” statement anywhere.