Hi, Colin! On Apr 26, Colin Charles wrote: > Hi! > > I just read: > https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/ > > It says the 5 year boundary date for support ending for 10.0 is 31 Mar > 2019, and later goes on to specify why 5.5 has a later EOL, "The > MariaDB Foundation may decide to maintain selected releases beyond the > normal 5 years if they are in exceptionally widespread use. As MariaDB > 5.5 is included in multiple prominent Linux distributions with a > lifespan beyond 2017, the Foundation is committed in maintaining it > until 2020." > > Is SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12, with MariaDB Server 10.0, not > considered a “prominent Linux distribution”? SLES12 released in 2014, > comes with MariaDB Server 10.0, and requires at least 10 years of > support (https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/). > > Just checking to see if the maintenance policy above is in error
No, it is not an error. There was a discussion and a decision specifically for 5.5. We simply haven't discussed 10.0 EOL yet, there was no decision not to extend 10.0 lifespan. And, strictly speaking, SLES12 is not "multiple distributions" :) But good point about SUSE, thanks. Apparently we need to discuss 10.0 EOL too, someday in the course of the next two years. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and secur...@mariadb.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
