[dev] FRR Technical Meeting Notes - 02/27/2018

[Quentin Young]

There’s two EOL dates in the table. Let’s not pretend that 1 of them is the ’true' EOL date.

+---------------------+----------------------+
|    Full Updates     |    May 10th, 2017    |
+---------------------+----------------------+
| Maintenance Updates |  November 30th, 2020 |
+---------------------+----------------------+

Here is what I propose, since the majority of platforms follow something like the above, roughly:

- “Full Updates” period, where packages are actively updated, new features, new kernels etc
- “Maintenance Updates” i.e. only back porting security fixes / critical bug fixes

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.

Does this sound reasonable to everyone?

> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Lou Berger <lberger at labn.net> wrote:
> 
> Right. It says:
> Maintenance Updates2 <https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product#fndef-a91b3c0c287c782f9af063daff9e64b566d648c7-1> November 30th, 2020
> 
> On February 27, 2018 2:20:24 PM Quentin Young <qlyoung at cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> As Donald said in his email,
>> 
>>>> We are just trying to match what the EOL is from the centos website itself.
>> 
>> https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product <https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product>
>> 
>>> On Feb 27, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Lou Berger <lberger at labn.net <mailto:lberger at labn.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> fair point, based on a quick google:
>>> 
>>> https://linuxlifecycle.com/ <https://linuxlifecycle.com/>
>>> 
>>> CentOS 6 (released 10 Jul 2011, EOL 30 Nov 2020)
>>> 
>>> Lou
>>> 
>>> On 2/27/2018 2:01 PM, Donald Sharp wrote:
>>>> Isn't that Redhat, not centos 6?  Different distributions.  We are
>>>> just trying to match what the EOL is from the centos website itself.
>>>> 
>>>> donald
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Lou Berger <lberger at labn.net> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for the notes!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/27/2018 12:56 PM, Quentin Young wrote:
>>>>>> - Seeing as Centos 6 went EOL in May 2017, it is no longer supported; to
>>>>>> be
>>>>>>   noted in docs
>>>>> 
>>>>> umm, per https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
>>>>>  Linux 6, EUS 6.7 (ends December 31, 2018)
>>>>>  V6 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product retirement): June 30, 2024
>>>>> 
>>>>> I know of a fair number of folks still using 6.x, I think EOL support is
>>>>> premature.
>>>>> I think FRR support is needed through *at least* the end of this year.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lou
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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