Perhaps we could consider giving certain versions longer support cycles then usual? Not 2 years, but maybe instead of the usual 6 months make it 9 so that users stuck because they can't upgrade to e.g. stretch yet won't be stuck with a completely unmaintained version so quickly? Obviously only significant bugfixes will be backported during this period, but it would give our users a bit more time to upgrade their infra.
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Michael Moll <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 02:49:12PM +0300, Ohad Levy wrote: > > My main concern here is that we would need to support 4.2 and 5 for a > long > > period of time without using any of the benefits in 5 (more work - less > > features), what can be even worse, is that some of the bugs in rails will > > be fixed only in 5 and then we would have some inconsistency across > > distributions. > > I didn't say it's going to be fun... ;) > > > How much longer do you think we should announce in advance before > > announcing that a given release is the last supported one for a given > > distribution? > > Ideally I'd like to see Ruby 2.1 supported until 1.17. While requiring > newer nodejs versions isn't a problem thanks to the nodesource > repositories, there's nothing similar for newer Ruby versions. > > However, if Rails 5 is really high priority, yes, then there's no way > around getting rid of Ruby 2.1 after the 1.16 release and we should > announce that as early as possible. I'm just seeing quite some users > stuck with 1.16 on Debian 8 then - like some are still on 1.12/1.13 > because of EL6. > > Regards > -- > Michael Moll > > -- > 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. > -- Have a nice day, Tomer Brisker Red Hat Engineering -- 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.
