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Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from pyt
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3) |
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Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:44:59 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) |
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:18:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 12:58, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > When first wording the lifetimes, I tried to strike a balance between
> > limiting what we have to support, while also not negatively impacting
> > a large number of QEMU developers or users. Since we had never had
> > such support lifetimes declared for QEMU before, I was fairly generous,
> > hence picking the 2 year overlap for LTS distros (Ubuntu, RHEL and
> > SLES).
> >
> > It is easier to come to a decision when considering a real world tech
> > problem related to the lifetime.
> >
> > The start of this thread was debating Debian / Python support. If we
> > fix the doc to put debian under the short life distro category, we'll
> > have solved the Python problem IIUC.
>
> I don't think Debian counts as a distro "with frequent, short-lifetime
> releases", though.
It is kind of in the middle ground between the short 6 month frequency
releases, and the long 3+ year major releases
> Stating overall that we don't intend to support distro versions
> that the distro themselves doesn't support ought to be sufficient,
> shouldn't it?
Yeah, that at least addresses the python question.
> In general, my view is that if we bump up against any of these
> support-lifetime limits then we're being too eager to drop
> support for something from QEMU and we should prefer to retain
> support for a while longer. I like and think that it's important
> that QEMU as a project does not live on the bleeding-edge and
> require latest-and-greatest versions of its dependencies to build.
Yeah, there's certainly a balance to be hit. If we only rarely have
to debate problems with desired min versions vs distros, and users
rarely complain that we're dropping stuff too soon, then that's a
sign we've got the balance about right.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2019/09/23
- Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3, John Snow, 2019/09/23
- Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Eduardo Habkost, 2019/09/23
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), John Snow, 2019/09/23
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/09/24
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/09/24
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Eduardo Habkost, 2019/09/25
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Daniel P . Berrangé, 2019/09/26
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), Peter Maydell, 2019/09/26
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3),
Daniel P . Berrangé <=
- Re: Debian support lifetime (was Re: [PATCH] docker: move tests from python2 to python3), John Snow, 2019/09/26