[Kimchi-devel] LTS distro support?

[Aline Manera]

Hi,

Thanks for your contact. It is always a pleasure to get information 
about who is using Kimchi.

Usually we make an effort to test Kimchi in the latest version of 
Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE and Ubuntu available on time of a new Kimchi 
release.
We are trying now to get it tested on Debian too as it is required to 
get the Kimchi package available in the official Ubuntu repositories.

(When I say 'we' I am talking about the most active developers in Kimchi 
community)

It would be good to have Kimchi supported on a Ubuntu LTS version as 
well, but for that we will need a developer continually using it to 
report and fix the issues and, we don't have one today.
Can you help us on that? Maybe get someone validating Kimchi time by 
time on a Ubuntu LTS version and report the issues found.
That way we can have a better view on what is needed to make the Ubuntu 
LTS support reality.

Please, feel free to share your thoughts on that and how we can join 
efforts to make it happen.

Regards,
Aline Manera

On 01/27/2017 04:53 PM, WK wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Approximately a year ago we discovered Kimchi and immediately tested 
> it on FC23 since that was one of the distro's supported.
>
> The workgroups were very happy with having a browser GUI, and the 
> sysop guys love that they can still work on virsh with the command 
> line along with all their ansible scripts.
>
> So last fall we put it into production with U16.4 LTS (kimchi 2.3.0) 
> since that was available at the time and it had newer qemu/libvirt 
> than Cent 7.x
>
> We see that currently you moved on to kimchi/wok/ginger with 2.3.1 but 
> the .deb was targeted to U16.10. Fortunately, it install fine on 16.04 
> but we are little worried that when 17.04 comes out, the compatibility 
> with LTS will go away.
>
> What is your distro support strategy?
>
> Obviously with migration and the fact that libvirt is relatively 
> stable, bringing up newer hosts is not that hard but it does seem to 
> be a little unecessary and we would prefer to stick with a longer term 
> distro, though swapping out every 2 year (i.e. U18.4 LTS) would 
> certainly be fine.
>
> We are agnostic as to Ubuntu/Redhat but in this case Ubuntu had the 
> newer tools and we actually noticed that things like storage migration 
> worked better on Ubuntu 16 vs FC23 because of that.
>
> Thank you for your efforts either way.
>
> Sincerely
>
> WK
>
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