backporting patches isn't too terribly hard to be honest. you could probably hire a consultant to do it if need be. mirantis would probably quote you a price.
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Fox, Kevin M <kevin....@pnnl.gov> wrote: > Kind of related, as an op, we see a lot of 3rd party repositories that > recently only supported rhel5 move to finally supporting rhel6 because > rhel7 came out and rhel5 went to long term support contract only. This > caused us to have to support rhel5 way longer then we would have liked. > Now, we're stuck at 6 instead of 7. :/ > > Some number of users will stick with juno until it is EOL and then move. > Sometimes its because its a desire to not make a change. Sometimes its > considered a good thing by the ops that they finally have a "good enough" > excuse (EOL) to move forward "finally" (sigh of relief). :) > > Thanks, > Kevin > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jesse Keating [j...@bluebox.net] > *Sent:* Friday, November 06, 2015 10:14 AM > *To:* Dan Smith > *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); > openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org > *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] [stable][all] > Keeping Juno "alive" for longer. > > We (Blue Box, an IBM company) do have a lot of installs on Juno, however > we'll be aggressively moving to Kilo, so we are not interested in keeping > Juno alive. > > > - jlk > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Dan Smith <d...@danplanet.com> wrote: > >> > Worth mentioning that OpenStack releases that come out at the same time >> > as Ubuntu LTS releases (12.04 + Essex, 14.04 + Icehouse, 16.04 + Mitaka) >> > are supported for 5 years by Canonical so are already kind of an LTS. >> > Support in this context means patches, updates and commercial support >> > (for a fee). >> > For paying customers 3 years of patches, updates and commercial support >> > for April releases, (Kilo, O, Q etc..) is also available. >> >> Yeah. IMHO, this is what you pay your vendor for. I don't think upstream >> maintaining an older release for so long is a good use of people or CI >> resources, especially given how hard it can be for us to keep even >> recent stable releases working and maintained. >> >> --Dan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-operators mailing list >> openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >
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