On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 09:48:53AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote:
> Hal Murray via devel <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > We need a mechanism to review/update things occasionally and a list of 
> > things 
> > that need occasional review.
> > 
> > Here is a starter:
> >   https://www.ntpsec.org/supported-platforms.html
> > Under test status, it says:
> >   Fedora 26 and 25 (i686, x86_64)
> > and lots more.
> > 
> > We could fix most of that by replacing specific version numbers by 
> > something 
> > like "supported versions" and maybe mentioning that many distros have a 
> > policy 
> > of supporting the current release and the previous release.
> 
> One way we can dodge around this is by changing those assertions to "version X
> and later".  Forward-compatibility breaks affecting the stuff we use are so
> rare that I think this is safe - and on thoe exceotional occasions they cause
> enough ruckus that we are unlikely not to notice.
> 
> What do you think of this policy?

That still makes this table a maintainence headache.  Can we instead say that 
we built on modern/supported-by-upstream releases of popular operating systems 
and distributions.  And we build test on the platforms supported by our CI 
system.  See https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml for 
the specific platforms that we test on.

Otherwise, we're maintaining data in 2 places and it's going to get out of sync.

Thanks,
-Matt
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reply via email to