Am Dienstag, 14. Juli 2015, 17:28:27 schrieb Richard Brown:
On 14 July 2015 at 15:19, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:
1. Do you like the idea of Kernel 4.1 in Leap 42.1?
Given the timeline, it'll be the best match.
Great
2. If yes, are you/is one of you willing to maintain Kernel 4.1 as the kernel for Leap 42.1?
It depends on what we mean by support. Security and crash/corruption/etc updates? Sure. We already do that with openSUSE point releases, which will be eclipsed by this. If you mean something closer to what we offer to SLES where we have expected SLAs, etc, then that's going to be more difficult without resources to dedicate to that task.
I purposefully didn't use the word 'support', which I see as a more loaded term casting images of L3 support, SLA's, blah blah.
When I say "maintenance" I mean security, crash/corruption/etc updates, yes.
So yes, I believe the same level of maintenance for the Leap kernel as was provided to openSUSE point releases in the past is perfectly sufficient.
3. Do you like the idea of favouring LTS Kernels and/or SLE Kernels for future Leap releases?
It's certainly easier from a maintenance perspective to use SLES kernels but I don't think it really hits the sweet spot for the target user for Leap.
The good news is that, outside of the Xen patches, our kernels tend to be fairly close to upstream. The SLES kernels are almost entirely driver backports. So if we're more aggressive about which kernel we use for Leap, we shouldn't need those. I spent some time yesterday and will spend some time today going through what we have in SLE12 and what would need to come forward. For things like Xen, the work is already done thanks to the effort by Jan Beulich. It's also the last kernel that we get stack unwinding relatively inexpensively (effort-wise), so it's a good pick from that perspective as well.
Sounds good, thanks for your perspective Jeff :)
I hope I'm not too pushy here for a community-project. But isn't it about time to come to a conclusion? Regards! Rainer Fiebig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org