[Gluster-users] IMP: Release 4.0: CentOS 6 packages will not be made available

[Amye Scavarda]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Tomalak Geret'kal <tom at kera.name> wrote:

> On 11/01/2018 18:32, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> > Gluster Users,
> >
> > This is to inform you that from the 4.0 release onward, packages for
> > CentOS 6 will not be built by the gluster community. This also means
> > that the CentOS SIG will not receive updates for 4.0 gluster packages.
> >
> > Gluster release 3.12 and its predecessors will receive CentOS 6 updates
> > till Release 4.3 of gluster (which is slated around Dec, 2018).
> >
> > The decision is due to the following,
> > - Glusterd2 which is golang based meets its dependencies on CentOS 7
> > only, and is not built on CentOS 6 (yet)
> >
> > - Gluster community regression machines and runs are going to be CentOS
> > 7 based going forward, and so determinism of quality on CentOS 7 would
> > be better than on CentOS 6
> >
> > If you have questions, send to Amye Scavarda <amye at redhat.com>
> >
> Hi Amye,
>
> How does this mesh with the fact that CentOS 6 is supposed
> to receive maintenance updates until November 2020?
> Particularly as this project is a Red Hat endeavour. Will we
> only get updates on RHEL6 or is that going to be
> discontinued around December 2018 as well?
>
> Cheers
>

Hi there!
Thanks for reaching out!
We did consider this as well, and we understand that different projects
have different lifecycles. That being said, in the interest of providing
the best possible experience for 4.0, we're aligning our community releases
with our development platform.
If someone is available to offer resources to continue supporting CentOS6,
I think we'd be willing to consider that.
-- amye

-- 
Amye Scavarda | amye at redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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