Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:27:28 +0100 Peter Tribble wrote: > > Which does open the question: how many people need LTS? (And what > does LTS mean for them - in terms of how long support would be needed, > and what level of support/backports they expect.) Perhaps Chris could

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:27:28 +0100 Peter Tribble wrote: > > Which does open the question: how many people need LTS? (And what > does LTS mean for them - in terms of how long support would be needed, > and what level of support/backports they expect.) Perhaps Chris could

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Peter Tribble wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: This would be a great way for a commercial outfit which offers paid support contracts to get involved. LTS releases are quite a lot of commitment and work but a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Peter Tribble wrote: ; Now the current release (151022) is marked as LTS. So at least you're in ; a reasonably stable place right now and have options, with no need to ; commit to anythjing for a few months. Just to be clear, r151022 was marked as LTS by OmniTI. Those three

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Chris Siebenmann
> Which does open the question: how many people need LTS? (And what does > LTS mean for them - in terms of how long support would be needed, and > what level of support/backports they expect.) Perhaps Chris could chip > in here, but I know that with my $DAYJOB hat on the idea of dropping >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Tobi Oetiker
> On 26 Jul 2017, at 22:27, Peter Tribble wrote: > [...] > but I know that with my $DAYJOB hat on the idea of > dropping security updates for release X as soon as release Y comes out > is a bit of a non-starter. our idea is to support X as well as X-1 so there would be

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Tobias Oetiker wrote: we have discussed this in the core team and found that no one of us has been using LTS until now and no one is planning to do so in the future ... This would be a great way for a commercial outfit which offers paid support contracts to get involved.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Chris, we have discussed this in the core team and found that no one of us has been using LTS until now and no one is planning to do so in the future ... What we intend, is to support the current and previous release with an emphasis on the current release going forward from r151022. That

[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-25 Thread Chris Siebenmann
The OmniOS CE release announcement here on the mailing list covered the broad plans for the (non-Bloody) release schedule: The intention is for new stable releases to continue to come out every 26 weeks. Interim, "weekly" updates to stable follow a fixed schedule denoted