On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:31:54AM -0500, John Morris wrote: > Hi list, > > Continuing to support Ubuntu 8.04 is foolhardy, and I propose we stop.
I'd support the idea of dropping hardy builds for 2.6 and master. > - Hardy desktop support ended May 2011; server support ended May 2013. > Support for Lucid desktops ended May 2013 (servers two years later). [1] > This is the upstream distro vendor's LTS policy, and the most > reasonable EOL support policy for this project is to mirror the upstream > policy. I would NOT support making a blanket policy that we mirror anybody's EOL decisions. We have a lot of considerations they don't and we should make our own decisions when appropriate (like what you are proposing this time). > The intention is that those still on Hardy will get bug fixes for v2.5, > but other branches that aren't required to support Hardy will not be > tripped up by failed buildbot builds. I support this - how exactly to make it happen in the buildbot world is something Seb will have to help us with, and I propose we don't need to vote on (or even yet worry about) those implementation details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
