<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There’s two EOL dates in the table. Let’s not pretend that 1 of them is the ’true' EOL date.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">+---------------------+----------------------+</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">| Full Updates | May 10th, 2017 |</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">+---------------------+----------------------+</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">| Maintenance Updates | November 30th, 2020 |</font></div><div class=""><font face="Menlo" class="">+---------------------+----------------------+</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is what I propose, since the majority of platforms follow something like the above, roughly:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- “Full Updates” period, where packages are actively updated, new features, new kernels etc</div><div class="">- “Maintenance Updates” i.e. only back porting security fixes / critical bug fixes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For whatever the platform in question is, we do the same thing. Continue to ship updated FRR packages for platforms in the “Full Updates” phase. Then once they enter the “Maintenance Updates” phase we freeze the package at whatever version it is, or close to it depending on convenience, and then only back port security fixes / critical bug fixes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does this sound reasonable to everyone?</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Lou Berger <<a href="mailto:lberger@labn.net" class="">lberger@labn.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Right. It says:<br class="">
Maintenance Updates<a href="https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product#fndef-a91b3c0c287c782f9af063daff9e64b566d648c7-1" class="">2</a> November 30th, 2020</p>
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<div style="" class=""><p style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 10pt 0px;" class="">On February 27, 2018 2:20:24 PM Quentin Young <<a href="mailto:qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com" class="">qlyoung@cumulusnetworks.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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As Donald said in his email,<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We are just trying to match what the EOL is from the centos website itself.</blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product" class="">https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Lou Berger <<a href="mailto:lberger@labn.net" class="">lberger@labn.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">fair point, based on a quick google:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://linuxlifecycle.com/" class="">https://linuxlifecycle.com/</a><br class=""><br class="">CentOS 6 (released 10 Jul 2011, EOL 30 Nov 2020)<br class=""><br class="">Lou<br class=""><br class="">On 2/27/2018 2:01 PM, Donald Sharp wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Isn't that Redhat, not centos 6? Different distributions. We are<br class="">just trying to match what the EOL is from the centos website itself.<br class=""><br class="">donald<br class=""><br class="">On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Lou Berger <<a href="mailto:lberger@labn.net" class="">lberger@labn.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Thanks for the notes!<br class=""><br class="">On 2/27/2018 12:56 PM, Quentin Young wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">- Seeing as Centos 6 went EOL in May 2017, it is no longer supported; to<br class="">be<br class=""> noted in docs<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">umm, per <a href="https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata" class="">https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata</a><br class=""> Linux 6, EUS 6.7 (ends December 31, 2018)<br class=""> V6 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product retirement): June 30, 2024<br class=""><br class="">I know of a fair number of folks still using 6.x, I think EOL support is<br class="">premature.<br class="">I think FRR support is needed through *at least* the end of this year.<br class=""><br class="">Lou<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:dev@lists.frrouting.org" class="">dev@lists.frrouting.org</a><br class="">https://lists.frrouting.org/listinfo/dev<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:dev@lists.frrouting.org" class="">dev@lists.frrouting.org</a><br class="">https://lists.frrouting.org/listinfo/dev<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote>
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