Expanding the audience of https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/28721
> Patch Set 2: > > Am I correct if I summarize your point as: > 1) we should document the distribution we officially support (this was the goal of the wiki page you setup) > 2) as long as we do not break this list we should be allowed to use new tools etc. (which might be breaking other, unsupported distribution) > > If so, I agree with you but I think I disagree about the list of supported distribution :) > Right now we run CI on: > - Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 > - Debian 9 and 10 > - CentOS 7 and 8 > I'd say this is what we currently support :) (but again: it is my own personal view here, and obviously I am a bit biased on the deb9 subject ;) ). > There was discussion during last community call about dropping CentOS 7 support and I think the consensus was to keep it for now, but we might drop it for 21.01 (or something along that line). > > Probably the best should be to have that discussion directly on the ml and during the community calls instead of in this ticket. Everything on the wiki is wrong! It was right at some point in time, but that time has passed. If it is right, it is a coincidence. The info was put there to try to form a consensus, but no one agreed. If we can get a consensus, it should be memorialized in a README type doc in the repo and the wiki can be removed or pointed to the repo. I don't know the history with deb9 for you, or who needs/wants it. I have nothing against it. We should know how long we are to maintain it for, yes? Is there a reason we can't support it by building a current python in the makefile instead? I'd characterize #2 somewhat differently. People should be allowed/encouraged to introduce new tools, but they need to be tested. Last year, The folks at Netgate started pushing changes for Centos 8. I wasn't approving them, not because I wanted to hold anyone up, but because they didn't work for me on a fresh Centos 8 container. I was told that as long as they didn't fail the CI, I could/should approve them. They shouldn't be blocked from having the feature, but it has to still be tested/work. Paul
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