Re: Re: [security-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.1 has reached end of SUSE support

On 18 May 2017 at 07:33, Michal Kubecek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 15:18 Mathias Homann wrote:
>> ...have we at any time in the past ever had a situation where there
>> was only ONE version of openSUSE officially supported?
>>
>> I mean, Leap 42.3 is not out yet...
>
> Current situation is quite different from what we had earlier. In the
> old model, each new version was really new, forked fresh from Factory,
> so that there was in actually no real "major" and "minor" version. As
> new versions came each 6 or 8 months (more or less), noone could blame
> users who did not want to do a full upgrade to new codebase so often.
> That's why there was an overlap between [n] and [n+2], so that you could
> skip e.g. 12.2 and upgrade directly from 12.1 to 12.3 without losing
> support at any moment.
>
> With Leap 42.x, core packages (mostly) follow SLE ones where the policy
> is that upgrading in a new service pack should be well reasoned, not
> just "hey, there is a new upstream version". And this logic should apply
> to most of the distribution - or at least that is the plan. There are
> exceptions, of course, as some packages do not fit into this model well
> and some maintainers do not agree with this policy, but in general, Leap
> 42.x and 42.(x+1) should be much closer to each other than e.g. 12.1 and
> 12.2. Therefore users should fear upgrading to next point release less
> and it should make much less sense to skip 42.2 and upgrade 42.1 systems
> directly to 42.3.
>
> What is a different story, though, is moving to new major version with
> completely new codebase. IMHO we should think very carefully about the
> overlap of lifetimes of last 42.x and 43.0/15.0/whatever it is called.
> IMHO it would make good sense to have longer overlap (12 months?)
> between those.

Release Dates of SLE/Leap 15 are not yet final, so this is an educated
estimate based on the information I have available to me, but we're
currently looking at a situation where there should be a minimum of 9
months between the release of Leap 15 and the end of life of 42.3.

There is a possibility that the overlap could be extended beyond that.
We'll see. I'm involved in conversations on the topic but I wouldn't
expect any news in this area quickly, as there are lots of moving
parts involved.
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