On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Gerald Pfeifer <gp@novell.com> wrote
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, James Tremblay aka SLEducator wrote:
I must have misrepresented my thoughts, I was thinking this exact thing. 11.3 should be the only fully supported release in the 11.x series. 11.3 should remain supported until 13.1.
openSUSE is not officially supported at all (at least not by Novell, apart from installation support for the box).
For purposes of this conversation, I think supported == "still is updated" and receives security updates. It should be (I hope) understood that is what's (I think) actually being discussed. See the last "end of life" notice here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00004.html "It is now officially discontinued and out of support."
11.3-13.1 = 36 months
If the community wants to provide security and whatever updates for that long, that's fine. It is _extremely_ unlikely Novell is going to fund that; already those 24 months are a stretch.
Indeed. Just to add to that -- I wouldn't recommend it. Previous efforts to support community releases long term (i.e., Fedora Legacy, IIRC) tend to falter because that's just not popular work. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org