Hi, Colin! On Apr 27, Colin Charles wrote: > > Hi, Colin! > > > > On Apr 26, Colin Charles wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> I just read: > >> https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/ > >> > >> It says the 5 year boundary date for support ending for 10.0 is 31 > >> Mar 2019, and later goes on to specify why 5.5 has a later EOL, > >> "The MariaDB Foundation may decide to maintain selected releases > >> beyond the normal 5 years if they are in exceptionally widespread > >> use. As MariaDB 5.5 is included in multiple prominent Linux > >> distributions with a lifespan beyond 2017, the Foundation is > >> committed in maintaining it until 2020." > >> > >> Is SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12, with MariaDB Server 10.0, not > >> considered a “prominent Linux distribution”? SLES12 released in > >> 2014, comes with MariaDB Server 10.0, and requires at least 10 > >> years of support > >> (https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/). > >> > >> Just checking to see if the maintenance policy above is in error > > > > No, it is not an error. > > There was a discussion and a decision specifically for 5.5. > > We simply haven't discussed 10.0 EOL yet, there was no decision not to > > extend 10.0 lifespan. > > OK. Glad this is on the radar. I think it makes sense to have these > discussions in public so that others can reference them to know why > such a decision was made. This is all about transparency, isn’t it?
Yes, I agree. > > But good point about SUSE, thanks. > > Apparently we need to discuss 10.0 EOL too, someday in the course of the > > next two years. > > Thank you. Also pay attention to MariaDB Server 10.1 dates to sync > with Debian (3 years from 2017, but also the LTS folk) - > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases Yes, but I'm sure that Otto will take care of that. He won't forget about Debian :) Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
