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Rocky,
You are correct.
But what it really shows that communal releases require substantial work before they are ready for consumption. While some users are happy to take communal release, most prefer to wait for distro releases because they satisfy their requirements on quality, upgradability, support, LSM, tools, etc.
This is equivalent to Linux releases and distros, Apache ones, and other open source projects.

Run communal release on actual hardware configuration and see how many gate tempest tests pass.

This is a separation between upstream work by the community and eco system around it to meet Customer needs.

This is why community needs our WG. Just because a project claims that feature is available does not mean that it is ready for consumption in openstack as a whole. But distros solve that and support it for multiple years including full LSM.

Thanks,
Arkady

-----Original Message-----
From: Rochelle Grober [mailto:rochelle.grober at huawei.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 11:50 AM
To: mark.baker at canonical.com
Cc: product-wg at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Product] FYI. Mirantis just released their Liberty distro

Yes. Mirantis' broad support is their differentiator but takes them longer to get to their own release. And yes, their support is at least three years. That said, EOL for Liberty is November.


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From: Mark Baker
To: Rochelle Grober;
Cc: product-wg at lists.openstack.org;
Subject: Re: [Product] FYI. Mirantis just released their Liberty distro

Time: 2016-03-02 01:09:08
I read differently that Mirantis has taken time to build their Liberty based distribution for all the platforms they support with the value added features they wanted to use to differentiate from others - the multi hypervisors support is a good example of this. The length of time Mirantis then chooses to support MOS 8 for their customers is up to them and I guess (without having checked) that it will be 3 years from release date.



Best Regards


Mark Baker

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Rochelle Grober <rochelle.grober at huawei.com> wrote:
This pretty much shows that many consumers wouldn't deploy a distro version until right around EOL.

--Rocky

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