On 4/15/19 9:44 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> All,
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> With CentOS8 around the corner to be released sometime around the summer, I
> would like to propose to deprecate CentOS6 as support management server host
> distro and KVM host distro. Non-systemd enabled Ubuntu releases have been
> already deprecated [1].
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> The older CentOS6 version would hold us back as we try to adapt, use and
> support newer JRE version, kvm/libvirt version, the Linux kernel, and several
> other older dependencies. Both CentOS6 and RHEL6 have reached EOL on May
> 10th, 2017 wrt full updates [1].
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> If we don't have any disagreements, I propose we remove el6 packaging support
> in the next major release - 4.13. But, if there are users and organisations
> that will be badly impacted, let 4.13 be the last of releases to support el6
> and we definitely remove el6 support in 4.14.
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> What are your thoughts?
I agree! EL6 is just no longer suited for development. Good suggestion.
Wido
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> [1] EOL date wiki reference:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Hypervisor+and+Management+Server+OS+EOL+Dates
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> Regards,
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> Rohit Yadav
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> Software Architect, ShapeBlue
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