[ovirt-devel] el6 future in ovirt-3.6

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/16/2015 06:02 PM, Sahina Bose wrote:
>
> On 03/16/2015 03:28 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> Current master branch of vdsm (destined for our 3.6 release) uses el7 as
>> its main platform. New features are expected to be available only on el7
>> (and modern Fedoras) but not on el6.
>>
>> On el6, vdsm still builds, runs, and exports clusterLevel <= 3.5, with
>> no feature loss relative to 3.5. This has been done per gluster request.
>>
>> However, maintaining this furhter as high costs: we keep testing el6, we
>> need to make sure nothing breaks there, and there's a lot of legacy code
>> that we could start deleting.
>>
>> Sahina, would you explain (again... sorry for not recalling the details)
>> why ovirt-3.6's vdsm should keep running on el6? I'd like to see if
>> there's a nother means to solve the underlying gluster issue.
>
> This was only because downstream gluster + vdsm would continue to be
> supported on RHEL 6.

is there an expected date at which new features would be .el7 only, so 
.el6 support can be dropped upstream?

>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan.
>
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