Hi Eric, This is the type of discussion that I wanted to open - the argument that I see for earlier dropping of v6 is that - Between May 2018 and q2 2020 RHEL/CentOS 6.x will only receive security and mission critical updates, meanwhile packages on which we depend or may want to utilise in the future are been deprecated or not developed for v6.x Also the testing and development burden on the CloudStack community increases as we try to maintain backward compatibility while including new versions.
Needing installation documentation for centos 7 is a great point, and something that we need to address regardless. Does anyone else have a view, I'd really like to here from a wide range of people. Kind regards, Paul Angus paul.an...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue -----Original Message----- From: Eric Green [mailto:eric.lee.gr...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 January 2018 17:24 To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSE] EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors Official EOL for Centos 6 / RHEL 6 as declared by Red Hat Software is 11/30/2020. Jumping the gun a bit there, padme. People on Centos 6 should certainly be working on a migration strategy right now, but the end is not here *yet*. Furthermore, the install documentation is still written for Centos 6 rather than Centos 7. That needs to be fixed before discontinuing support for Centos 6, eh? > On Jan 12, 2018, at 04:35, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > +1 I've updated the page with upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. > > > After 4.11, I think 4.12 (assuming releases by mid of 2018) should remove > "declared" (they might still work with 4.12+ but in docs and by project we > should officially support them) support for following: > > > a. Hypervisor: > > XenServer - 6.2, 6.5, > > KVM - CentOS6, RHEL6, Ubuntu12.04 (I think this is already removed, packages > don't work I think?) > > vSphere/Vmware - 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 > > > b. Remove packaging for CentOS6.x, RHEL 6.x (the el6 packages), and Ubuntu > 12.04 (any non-systemd debian distro). > > > Thoughts, comments? >
