I'm opposed to mandating support for the commercial distros for now. Theoretically, if we cover OpenSUSE and CentOS, we more-or-less cover SLES and RHEL as well.
A. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/28/2011 03:14 PM, Peter Linnell wrote: > > On 08/28/2011 02:29 PM, Bruno Mahé wrote: > >> On 08/26/2011 12:35 PM, Andrew Bayer wrote: > >>> ...we should probably do this. I know James had thoughts on what Ubuntu > >>> releases we should support, and that Bruno's got thoughts on > >>> Mageia/OpenSUSE, but we should probably codify the list somewhere. > Let's > >>> hear what platforms you all think we should support for 0.2.0, and then > >>> we'll vote on 'em to build out the list. > >>> > >>> A. > >>> > >> Top tier (the one we can't break): > >> * Latest CentOS (6.0) > >> * Latest Ubuntu LTS (10.04) > >> * Latest OpenSUSE (11.4) > >> * Latest Fedora (15) > >> > >> > >> 2nd tier (the ones without enough interest to be in the top tier, but > >> enough volunteers to maintain it): > >> * Latest Mageia (I volunteer to maintain it) > >> > >> > >> The top tier means we can't check in any patch that will break any of > >> these OSes. It also means we can't upgrade a component of BigTop if that > >> component cannot be built on any of these OSes. > >> Regarding the 2nd tier, it means not having a build is not a blocker for > >> a release and it is fine to have a commit breaking Mageia's support. > >> Although it does not mean we should break it on purpose either. The more > >> time I spend fixing Mageia, the less time I spend on other things. > >> > >> B. > > Hi, > > > > What about SLES 11 ? > > > > Peter > > That was my thoughts on what we should support, not an authoritative one. > I didn't put SLES or RHEL because I am not sure of the license > implications: > * Should the OSes in the top tier be available to anyone to fix? > * If only a few people have access to them, wouldn't releases depend on > these people? (in which case, they could be in the second tier) > * Is there any Apache restriction on that matter? > >
