Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@xxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 15. April 2008 21:58:29 schrieb Per Jessen:
> 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 agree, too.

And for discontinued releases i would vote for preserving it in the 
build-service one more term (e.g. 10.1 until 10.2 is discontinued).
So people have the opportunity to softly migrate.


Best regards
Jan-Simon
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