Serg, > On 27 Apr 2017, at 00:04, Sergei Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> wrote: > > 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.
OK. Glad this is on the radar. I think it makes sense to have these discussions in public so that others can reference them to know why such a decision was made. This is all about transparency, isn’t it? > And, strictly speaking, SLES12 is not "multiple distributions" :) Neither is RHEL7 or its derivatives, multiple distributions :) (with long support cycles) > But good point about SUSE, thanks. > Apparently we need to discuss 10.0 EOL too, someday in the course of the > next two years. Thank you. Also pay attention to MariaDB Server 10.1 dates to sync with Debian (3 years from 2017, but also the LTS folk) - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi _______________________________________________ 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
