On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Eric D Helms <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Dominic Cleal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/05/16 10:26, Dominic Cleal wrote: >> > I'd like to propose a deprecation of EL6 for Foreman 1.12, so we have >> > the option of leaving it out of the 1.13 release. >> >> I've stopped nightly EL6 builds now and will remove the yum repos > > shortly too. >> > > I would like to ask that we put a hold on this change without some further > discussion. This comes as a bit of a surprise (at a minimum a warning > similar to branch warnings would have been nice) given the conversation > herein where there was equal sides for and against this change. I do not > consider the line in the release notes sufficient for this kind of change > given the scale and scope it imposes. The release notes also do not > indicate which release users should prepare for this change, simply that it > will be that way in future releases. We have given users no major warnings > nor reiterated this point to allow them to begin considering how to > transition. We did not provide a transition document for users to consider > during the deprecation period. From a development stand point, there has > been no collaboration to coordinate all the various changes that have to be > made to support this change. I'm afraid we will be doing some of our users > and developers a disservice due to the feeling of abruptness of this > without sufficient "loud" warnings and supporting documentation to given > them time to prepare for migration. I like to believe users prefer to use > the latest and greatest (and that we should be encouraging the use of) and > we owe it to them to ensure we provide the smoothest runway possible to get > them there. I am thinking about the Katello part of the community here as > well which is a valid aspect of the ecosystem given the user base and how > we integrate with Foreman core and a variety of plugins. > > +1 I believe 1.14 is a more suitable candidates. mostly after having a proper backup/restore procedure to migrate foreman, proxy and plugins. Ohad > > Eric > > >> -- >> Dominic Cleal >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "foreman-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Eric D. Helms > Red Hat Engineering > Ph.D. Student - North Carolina State University > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "foreman-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
