[Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Scarborough" <virtuallymad at gmail.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:56:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Support life (timeframe) - upgrade path ?
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Perry Myers < pmyers at redhat.com >
> wrote:
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> On 02/10/2012 08:03 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
> > I answered with my limited knowledge on IRC, but I'll answer here
> > too
> > for those who didn't see the IRC questions.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 03:48 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> >> On 02/10/2012 03:42 AM, Morgan Cox wrote:
> >>> Hi.
> >>> 
> >>> As Fedora the default system that Ovirt is packaged for does this
> >>> mean that Ovirt will have the same (short) support life of 18
> >>> months ? I ask as that is a bit short to have in enterprise ..
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> > There is always RHEV if you want longer support...
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> Right, I think the first question we should be asking here is...
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> Morgan, what do you mean specifically by support?
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> Since it's an upstream project, typically each new release would
> obviate
> the previous one, and new features would only go into the latest
> version.
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> One valid question is whether or not bugfixes will only go into the
> latest version, or if the immediate prior version will get updates.
> (For example, bugfixes are backported to Fedora 15 even though Fedora
> 16
> is out)
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> Also, the term support from an upstream perspective is much different
> than from a product perspective.
> 
> Perry
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> So on a follow up question: Is any consideration being given to RHEL
> as far as compatibility? Will Ovirt features be held back if adding
> them would be impossible to do with RHEL? Like a feature requiring a
> major update to a RHEL package? Or is it up to the RHEV developers
> to sort it all out for their needs? It won't be long before Fedora
> outpaces RHEL on version levels, depending on the time frame for
> RHEL 7. RHEL 5 had a very long life span and was quite dated by the
> time RHEL 6 shipped.

What does "held back mean"? 
That's like asking if Fedora will be held back because of RHEL.
Upstream is upstream - it's where new features are developed sometimes they can be backported, other times it's not possible and means waiting for a major release.



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> Gary Scarborough
> IST Lab Manager
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> Rochester NY
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