On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, i didn't know that RHEL4 support is a requirement ;).
What's the
policy about platform support then? As far as i can tell it's not
documented anywhere, ideally this stuff should be in the roadmap...
As far as I know, there is no official policy on this. However, if
it's an officially supported release (whether it's RHEL, ubuntu, etc.)
we should support it. I believe we were still supporting RHEL3 for a
while, though we can remove that now if there are hooks in the code to
support it still.
Afterall this patch is against a development version of cobbler. The
stable releases (2.0.x) would still be available for the few
installing cobbler on RHEL4. Any thoughts on this?
RHEL4 is not EOL yet, therefore I do not want to quit supporting it in
HEAD. About 50% of the systems we have in cobbler are RHEL4, though we
have quit trying to build new ones.
Btw, the sub_process.py removal was suggested 5 months ago in:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/632
The ticket is still under review.
That ticket should either be closed or put on hold, since we will not
be acting on it for at least 9 months.