On 2017-01-24 22:52, Richard Brown wrote:
On 24 January 2017 at 19:39, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/24/2017 08:04 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
senseless - lacking common sense; wildly foolish.
openSUSE 13.2 is no longer receiving any security updates
I wonder if if it dawned on Richard just how prophetic it is having those two lines adjacent to each other?
openSUSE 13.2 was released with the support promise of "2 releases plus 2 months"
At the time we had an 8 month release cycle.
That meant that when it was released on 2014-11-04, the expected end of life was 18 months later, which would have been June 2016
With the elongation of release cycles as a result of the move to openSUSE Leap, this produced a strange situation. Does the project support openSUSE 13.2 for 18 months like originally intended? Or do we keep the original promise of "2 releases plus 2 months" despite the extra work required? The openSUSE Maintenance team chose the longer of the two, with the logic being that everyone should have expected 'at least 18 months' support, and people would be pleased to recieve 6 months longer support than originally implied.
I think it's most unreasonable for users to expect continued support for a version of openSUSE longer than the period which we declared upon it's release. That period has most certainly ended now, no matter which way you interpret our original announcements regarding the support lifecycle of openSUSE 13.2.
Yes, this is true. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)