Re: [PATCH] poky.conf: prune SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS

[Joshua Lock <joshua.g.lock@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 17:35 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
> On 1/24/17 7:04 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 01:04:13PM +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
> > > Remove several old/untested distros from the list:
> > > * poky-1.8 and poky-2.0 are no longer supported releases
> > > * ubuntu-14.04 is an LTS but we plan to remove it from the
> > >   project's autobuilder cluster as the kernel is old and
> > >   it doesn't use systemd -- therefore this will no longer
> > >   be tested.
> > 
> > Can you elaborate a bit more on the pain involved with supporting
> > Ubuntu
> > 14.04?  Or, do you expect to drop Ubuntu 16.04 in favour of 18.04
> > at
> > around this point in 2019 and continue only supporting the latest
> > LTS
> > for Ubuntu?  I ask because supported hosts are an important part of
> > companies being able to plan their use and upgrade
> > strategies.  Thanks!
> > 
> 
> ubuntu 14.04 is still not EOL until April 2019, and I think lot of
> folks
> will keep using it until its EOLed, so it would be preferable to keep
> it
> as a supported host.

I agree that it would be preferable. 

Unfortunately we don't currently have the resources to validate it so,
whilst we won't explicitly *not* support it, we can't include it in
SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS because it won't be tested by the YP QA team.

Regards,

Joshua