[ovirt-devel] el6 future in ovirt-3.6

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Mar 17, 2015, at 09:47 , Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de> wrote:

> +1
> 
> also take a look at the results of
> the user survey:
> most users use el6
> so even the discussion about "dropping support"
> will make people uncertain how long
> they will be able to use el6.
> me included.

well, of course most users use el6, that's the only stable platform we had till very recently.
Most of the 3.6 features require el7, so new features can only be added there.

3.5 will be maintained for as long is needed/requested, but eventually we have to move on. After all, hypervisor hosts are supposed to be in full control of oVirt so you shouldn't care/modify them too much.
We always support only the recent minor releases, so in this sense we did drop <=6.5 in 3.5 already; you can only run on 6.6, 7.0 and 7.1.

Thanks,
michal

> 
> On 16/03/15 23:19, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>> I cannot understand these conflicting statements.
>> 
>> if any component of vdsm needs to run on el6, el6 support cannot be dropped, this [among other] includes python version and other infra modules, packaging included.
>> 
>> a possible sensible solution is to continue maintaining 3.5 for gluster on el6 with possibly new features, and have master free of el6 for all dependencies.
>> 
>> dropping el6 from 3.6 should have been early in development cycle to allow proper testing. the gluster issue should have resolved even before the 3.6 cycle.

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