Hi Chris, On 23/03/2016 00:39, Chris Dunlop wrote: > Hi Loïc, > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:14:27AM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote: >> On 22/03/2016 23:49, Chris Dunlop wrote: >>> Hi Stable Release Team for v0.94, >>> >>> Let's try again... Any news on a release of v0.94.6 for debian wheezy (bpo70)? >> >> I don't think publishing a debian wheezy backport for v0.94.6 is planned. Maybe it's a good opportunity to initiate a community effort ? Would you like to work with me on this ? > > It's my understanding, from statements by both Sage and yourself, that > existing OS'es would continue to be supported in the stable series, e.g.: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 06:32:18PM +0700, Loic Dachary wrote: > > I think you misread what Sage wrote : "The intention was to continue > > building stable releases (0.94.x) on the old list of supported platforms > > (which inclues 12.04 and el6)". In other words, the old OS'es are still > > supported. Their absence is a glitch in the release process that will be > > fixed. > > "The old OS'es" that were being supported up to v0.94.5 includes debian > wheezy. It would be quite surprising and unexpected to drop support for an > OS in the middle of a stable series. I'm unsure if wheezy is among the old OS'es. It predates my involvement in the stable releases effort. I know for sure el6 and 12.04 are supported for 0.94.x. > If that is indeed what's happening, and it's not just an oversight, I'd > prefer to put my efforts into moving to a supported OS rather than keeping > the older OS on life support. That makes sense. Should you change your mind, I'll be around to help. > Just to be clear, I understand it is quite a burden maintaining releases for > old OSes, I'm only voicing mild surprise and a touch of regret: I'm very > happy with the Ceph project! I'm hopefull we'll be able to support more OS in the future, both with a lightweight release process and more community support. The Ceph releases should scale out, just as Ceph does ;-) Cheers > > Cheers, > > Chris, > OnTheNet > -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
