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On Tuesday 20 July 2004 23:50, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:06:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Stuart Herbert |
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> > > 4/ we will need to have a policy about how long we'll support a profile, |
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> > > and a procedure for end-of-lifing profiles. (probably don't want to |
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> > > support a single profile for more than 2 years) |
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> > Not *less* than 2 years, I'd have thought. Some commercial systems are |
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> > supported for 5 or even 10 years. |
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> For a community distribution, I personally believe 2 years is more than |
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> sufficient. I'd even say 12-18 months is reasonable. |
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> I don't think we have the resources to maintain things for 5-10 years. |
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Even if we dont maintain or support versions older than a year, I would like |
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to see the old enterprise ebuilds available in enterprise portage for at |
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least 2 years if not longer. It is important to be able to reproduce a |
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production system, bugs and all. |
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fwiw, I still regularly emerge ebuilds from my November 2002 snapshot, and |
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dont plan on retiring this system soon. |
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