On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:48:07AM -0400, Stephen Benjamin wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dominic Cleal" <domi...@cleal.org> > > To: foreman-dev@googlegroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 9:35:10 AM > > Subject: Re: [foreman-dev] Deprecate EL6? > > > > On 26/07/16 14:13, Eric D Helms wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:46 AM, Dominic Cleal <domi...@cleal.org > > > <mailto:domi...@cleal.org>> 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. > > > > The warnings section of the release notes state that EL6 packages will > > likely not be provided in 1.13, but I'll update them now to state > > clearly that they won't, with pointers to our existing migration > > information. This can certainly be expanded with more help if somebody > > wishes to write it, and there's plenty of time to do that in. > > > > I don't think I've done anything differently to previous OS deprecations > > and removals, which seem to have gone without incident. > > 2 users yesterday at the meet-up in DC specifically asked about this, and > were rather surprised by the decision. They have some long-running instances > of Foreman and they want to have more time to get them off EL6, and continuing > to get updates (esp. security issues) was important for them. Considering > 75%+ of Foreman users run on EL, it's no surprise EL6 still makes up a big > part of the user base.
I believe that at the Nuremburg meetup there were a few users on EL6 as well, but they mostly cared about supporting EL6 clients (through provisioning) which will be supported for a long time. That said, I believe security updates are the most important to them so you could consider supporting the last release on EL6 a bit longer. I don't know how much of a time/effort difference that makes compared to supporting it longer on the newest release. -- 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 foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
