On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Stephen Potter <spp(a)unixsa.net> wrote:
On 6/20/2011 10:25 AM, Jörgen Maas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, James Cammarata<jimi(a)sngx.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> Well, you just provided us with a policy...
I think maybe we'd need a better definition of officially supported and
a limit on which distributions it includes to make this a policy. What
if someone were to add support for some small Linux distro that is
forever stuck in the past?
-spp
By "officially supported", I mean that if we support a distro all
current versions that are supported by the distributor should be
supported. For example, Fedora supports the current and previous
versions, so we should have official support for Fedora 15 and 14. For
distros that offer extended support like RHEL, we should support those
as long as Red Hat does, meaning we still support RHEL3.
Since things don't change that much in older code bases, we can make a
judgment call as to whether or not we'll support recently retired
distros - for example would it be that difficult for us to fix a
problem with Fedora 13 imports? Since fedora has such a high refresh
rate, it probably wouldn't take much for us to support slightly out of
date versions. RHEL is another beast, considering it has such a long
lifespan.