<p dir="ltr">Certainly the aim is to support upgrades between LTS releases. <br>
Getting a meaningful keynote slot at an OpenStack summit is more of a challenge.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">On 6 Nov 2015 9:27 pm, "Jonathan Proulx" <<a href="mailto:jon@csail.mit.edu">jon@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 05:28:13PM +0000, Mark Baker wrote:<br>
> :Worth mentioning that OpenStack releases that come out at the same time as<br>
> :Ubuntu LTS releases (12.04 + Essex, 14.04 + Icehouse, 16.04 + Mitaka) are<br>
> :supported for 5 years by Canonical so are already kind of an LTS. Support<br>
> :in this context means patches, updates and commercial support (for a fee).<br>
> :For paying customers 3 years of patches, updates and commercial support for<br>
> :April releases, (Kilo, O, Q etc..) is also available.<br>
><br>
> <sarcasm><br>
> And Canonical will support a live upgarde directly from Essex to<br>
> Icehouse and Icehouse to Mitaka?<br>
><br>
> I'd love to see Shuttleworth do that that as a live keynote, but only<br>
> on a system with at least hundres on nodes and many VMs...<br>
> </ sarcasm><br>
><br>
> That's where LTS falls down conceptually we're struggling to make<br>
> single release upgrades work at this point.<br>
><br>
> I do agree LTS for release would be great but honestly OpenStack isn't<br>
> Mature enough for that yet.<br>
><br>
> -Jon<br>
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