On 23 June 2017 at 12:48, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> writes: >> +The supported lifetime for machine types is 12 releases, which is >> +equivalent to 4 years worth of previous QEMU releases. >> + > > Do we have consensus on this? Peter?
I don't have an opinion personally because I don't care about backcompat for what I use QEMU for. From a pure upstream perspective, given that we don't support anything beyond the previous stable branch for security fixes we already don't really expect people to be doing production work on old upstream releases. So this is a distro question really and we need input from the people who package QEMU. Given that for instance Ubuntu LTSes get 5 years of support I would guess that 4 years might be a little low, but really we should ask the people with a more informed opinion. thanks -- PMM
