Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Klaus Kaempf wrote:

> there's a vivid discussion on opensuse-buildservice about the
> consequenses of "end of life" announcements to the buildservice.
>
> See
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-04/msg00185.html
>
> The question was raised if it is possible to keep older distributions
> available for download (e.g. unsupported.opensuse.org) and building.
> Adrian pointed to opensuse-project to get this question answered.

You said it very well on -buildservice:

> > I think we should differentiate between
> > - supported
> > and
> > - available for download/build
> >
> > I do not see anyone asking for ongoing support and maintenance. But I
> > do see requests for availability.

I agree completely.  I see no reason why the availability of a
particular product should be tied to the active Novell/openSUSE product
support life cycle.  I think someone said it already, but never mind -
once you're running servers in a 24h production environment, changes
and upgrades are few and far between.  Which is why people are still
running SUSE 6, 7 and 8.  I've got a firewall still running 7.1, and a
major production system still running 8.2. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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