On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:18:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 12:58, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> 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 -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
