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backporting patches isn't too terribly hard to be honest.  you could
probably hire a consultant to do it if need be.  mirantis would probably
quote you a price.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:

> Kind of related, as an op, we see a lot of 3rd party repositories that
> recently only supported rhel5 move to finally supporting rhel6 because
> rhel7 came out and rhel5 went to long term support contract only. This
> caused us to have to support rhel5 way longer then we would have liked.
> Now, we're stuck at 6 instead of 7. :/
>
> Some number of users will stick with juno until it is EOL and then move.
> Sometimes its because its a desire to not make a change. Sometimes its
> considered a good thing by the ops that they finally have a "good enough"
> excuse (EOL) to move forward "finally" (sigh of relief). :)
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jesse Keating [jlk at bluebox.net]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 06, 2015 10:14 AM
> *To:* Dan Smith
> *Cc:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions);
> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] [stable][all]
> Keeping Juno "alive" for longer.
>
> We (Blue Box, an IBM company) do have a lot of installs on Juno, however
> we'll be aggressively moving to Kilo, so we are not interested in keeping
> Juno alive.
>
>
> - jlk
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Dan Smith <dms at danplanet.com> wrote:
>
>> > Worth mentioning that OpenStack releases that come out at the same time
>> > as Ubuntu LTS releases (12.04 + Essex, 14.04 + Icehouse, 16.04 + Mitaka)
>> > are supported for 5 years by Canonical so are already kind of an LTS.
>> > Support in this context means patches, updates and commercial support
>> > (for a fee).
>> > For paying customers 3 years of patches, updates and commercial support
>> > for April releases, (Kilo, O, Q etc..) is also available.
>>
>> Yeah. IMHO, this is what you pay your vendor for. I don't think upstream
>> maintaining an older release for so long is a good use of people or CI
>> resources, especially given how hard it can be for us to keep even
>> recent stable releases working and maintained.
>>
>> --Dan
>>
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