Discontinuation of redis-7 for CentOS 9

[mfocko]

We've discovered¹ two weeks ago that you've discontinued that redis-7 image for CentOS 9.

First of all, going through the quay.io repositories and having a reasonably obnoxious experience finding this repo (which is pretty much standard UX across Quay and Docker Hub), I understand that it's hard to propagate such decisions² to the users, though I would very much appreciate if you tried to employ some way to deprecate images and warn potentially affected users (maybe warnings in the entrypoints of the images, even ASCII art to catch the eye; I definitely would've noticed that as I check on the deployment here-and-there).

My issue with this comes from the fact that I was not in any way aware of the discontinuation and “pulling the plug” on it. There are no commits, there are no issues, there are no warnings. I've found out about this decision at 5:30PM when the production died ( funnily enough, before the staging deployment :) ).

We already have plans to move on and since there are multiple alternatives, are you planning to maintain image of at least one of the forks, or we should look around for alternatives (possibly even non-CentOS based)?

Thanks.

Footnotes

1. sadly on our production deployment… ↩

2. like discontinuation of the maintenance because of the license changes ↩

[zmiklank]

Hello, thank you for raising this issue. I am sorry that this issue caused so much problems to you.
Redis7 should not have been discontinued in sclorg, and we should be still delivering the image.
Seems like our pushing action stopped working (probably because there was no activity on the repository) and we did not notice it.
Since there were no new builds I (incorrectly) considered this image to be deprecated and labeled its repository as such.

I will look into what happened and will try to fix the build and push action for the future. I have just pushed fresh images to quay.io so you should be able to use it now. We will support redis7 c9s image until the c9s itself is EOL. Please raise an issue again, if this does not hold (we will try to avoid that).

About the communication of deprecation: we are aware that we could be better in it and are working on a systematic approach. Implementing ascii art is a good idea, we will think about it, thanks. Sorry again.

[phracek]

The redis-7-c9s container is updated again. It looks like schedule rebuild disables also build-and-push action. Feel free to use it again. See https://quay.io/repository/sclorg/redis-7-c9s?tab=tags

[pkubatrh]

Closing as the immediate issue has been fixed.