On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 06:14:08PM +0100, John Garbutt wrote: > On 15 May 2015 at 17:41, Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Its tempting to say its scheduled for removal in N? So we have time to > >> work out if thats possible. > > > > I think that at the start of each dev cycle, we look at the distros we > > wish to target and identify if any can be dropped or have been EOLd. > > Then use that to decide what to deprecate in that cycle, for deletion > > in the next cycle. Trying to second guess too many cycles in advance > > is probably counter-productive. > > Well, as you mentioned, its not just about EOLed right? > Its more about adoption curves vs maintenance costs?
Yes, true. For short lived distros (eg Fedora/Ubuntu like 12-18 month lifetime) then its about EOL dates.. For long lived distros (RHEL, and other enterprise distros) then it is more about adoption curve and maintenance cost/phase. > My idea was to start the conversation about when most folks are likely > to move. They have already said no to deprecating in liberty, removal > in M. I am curious if they still see themselves on RHEL 6.x in N? > Maybe the answer is still yes? I guess its pretty hard to predict but IME users will always say no to killing their existing platform because why change anything if it isn't broken :-) So we probably do need to give them a little nudge at some point. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev