<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Perry Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmyers@redhat.com">pmyers@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/10/2012 08:03 AM, Mike Burns wrote:<br>
> I answered with my limited knowledge on IRC, but I'll answer here too<br>
> for those who didn't see the IRC questions.<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 03:48 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:<br>
>> On 02/10/2012 03:42 AM, Morgan Cox wrote:<br>
>>> Hi.<br>
>>><br>
>>> As Fedora the default system that Ovirt is packaged for does this<br>
>>> mean that Ovirt will have the same (short) support life of 18<br>
>>> months ? I ask as that is a bit short to have in enterprise ..<br>
><br>
> There is always RHEV if you want longer support...<br>
<br>
</div>Right, I think the first question we should be asking here is...<br>
<br>
Morgan, what do you mean specifically by support?<br>
<br>
Since it's an upstream project, typically each new release would obviate<br>
the previous one, and new features would only go into the latest version.<br>
<br>
One valid question is whether or not bugfixes will only go into the<br>
latest version, or if the immediate prior version will get updates.<br>
(For example, bugfixes are backported to Fedora 15 even though Fedora 16<br>
is out)<br>
<br>
Also, the term support from an upstream perspective is much different<br>
than from a product perspective.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">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.� <br>
<br>-- <br>Gary Scarborough<br>
IST Lab Manager<br>
Rochester Institute of Technology<br>
Rochester NY<br>