On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > Am Thu, 9 May 2019 13:31:45 +0200 > schrieb Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > + dnl TODO: delete this in July 2020 > > Does this come with a cost? I mean, SLE_12 is not going away any time soon. > Just dropping things because we can seems to be the wrong approach. Historically we almost never dropped stuff, and when we did it was completely unpredictable and arbitrary each time. Maintaining support for old software has a maint cost so it is desirable to drop things after a period of time. Thus we defined a platform support rules for when we will drop distros so that downstream vendors/ users have clear expectations: https://libvirt.org/platforms.html SLE is falls under the long life distros rule, so we have at most 2 major versions supported at any time, and the older version is dropped 2 years after the newer version is released. Our belief is that this cut off point for the old major version is long enough that people still using this older version are doing so becasue they want unchanging stable versions, not the bleeding edge. IOW, after SLE 15 has been released for 2 years, it is increasingly unlikely that most people will want to run new libvirt on SLE 12. There will always be people who are the exception to the rule, but on balance this is a good tradeoff between maint cost for libvirt vs likely usage by downstream. This same policy has also been now adopted by QEMU. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
