Hi Jeremy, thank you for the pointers and the background on Newton! On 1/19/17, 7:12 AM, "Jeremy Stanley" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2017-01-18 15:19:36 -0800 (-0800), Eric K wrote: >> Hi all, Is there any community-wide policy on how long we strive >> to maintain compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04? For example by >> avoiding relying on MySQL 5.7 features. I've had a hard time >> finding it on openstack.org and ML discussions. Thanks lots! > >Years ago the TC (only a few months after they ceased to be the PPB) >agreed to the following: > > OpenStack will target its development efforts to latest > Ubuntu/Fedora, but will not introduce any changes that would > make it impossible to run on the latest Ubuntu LTS or latest > RHEL. > > >http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004052.ht >ml > >http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.log.ht >ml#l-7 > >You can also find it referenced in our requirements documentation: > > >http://docs.openstack.org/developer/requirements/#finding-distro-status > >The upshot has basically been that whatever the "latest Ubuntu LTS" >was at the time the development cycle began is what we use for the >purposes of testing development leading up to a given release, and >is subsequently maintained for testing the resulting stable branches >from that release until our support end-of-life is reached. However, >the Newton release ended in an unfortunate situation... > >During the Newton development cycle, the Infra team decided to >provide teams a means of gracefully migrating their testing from >Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS with the expectation that it would be >completed within one cycle. This did not happen in time for the >release, and so we wound up with some projects testing stable/newton >on 16.04 while others were testing on 14.04. Obviously we couldn't >leave things in that state indefinitely or it would risk breaking >some project dependencies entirely in that branch, so we pushed to >get any remaining teams to finish uplifting their stable/newton >testing to 16.04 soon thereafter. > >The result is still that upstream OpenStack, from a QA/testing >perspective, considers stable/newton to "support" Ubuntu 16.04 LTS >("latest Ubuntu LTS" at the time its development cycle began), and >stable/mitaka is the last release we "supported" on Ubuntu 14.04 >LTS. Hopefully that is the answer you're seeking? >-- >Jeremy Stanley > >__________________________________________________________________________ >OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
