Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (142 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:34:42PM +0200, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> 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.

Btw,

the buildservice could be used by community members to provide
security update services even after we discontinue it.

Just needs some volunteers. ;)

Ciao, Marcus
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