General state of disregard and "dad left to buy milk" syndrome

[grepwood]

I'm relying on CentOS at work because RHEL 8 UBI can't be arsed to provide RPMs for a variety of packages, such as browsers that can be tested with WebDriver, such as full suite of build dependencies for Python, and various libraries needed by other dependencies I have to satisfy at work.

I tried to see why is our mirror to https://mirrors.centos.org/centos not working and lo and behold, the upstream URL returns 404. How the hell am I supposed to install librdkafka-devel now? Who is responsible for this?

Next I try to get help and contact info, and guess what?

I go to https://mirrors.centos.org to see if perhaps the directory just got renamed. This redirects me to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/
I try to find any contact info there, so I scroll down there to see if the "Authors" page has any headcount I can talk to. Turns out that http://mirrormanager.readthedocs.org/en ... utors.html is returning 404. The page doesn't exist. Great! Fedora took over CentOS' mirrors and apparently doesn't feel like having a sense of responsibility, accountability and ownership. Wonderful.

Next thing I do is I try to go to https://centos.org, maybe that page has someone I can talk to. Oh great! There's a link to IRC! Finally, a means of communication made for human beings - https://wiki.centos.org/irc
And you know what? Turns out this page is also deleted. Nice work.
So I tried to get help. I click the lifesaver wheel on the top right and you know what? https://wiki.centos.org/Documentation?a ... ettingHelp is also a deleted page.

Please, fix these issues. It's impossible to work without that repository in place.

[TrevorH]

https://mirrors.centos.opprg has always been for Stream only not for CentOS Linux. The correct url is and always has been http://mirror.centos.org - please note http:// NOT https://. It is not possible to use https on this and has never worked on https.

The old wiki.centos.org was migrated over the weekend from a moinmoin wiki instance to a flat file export of the content. It's no longer editable. The link https://wiki.centos.org/irc was missing an alias and has now been corrected.