[OpenAFS-devel] Re: How old of Linux do you use with OpenAFS?

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 11 May 2016, Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> I think we're not even discussing the removal of support for Linux 2.4
> from the 1.6.x stable release series, and this is rather about the
> upcoming 1.8 (which will not support 2.4 since the code doing that was
> removed on the master branch a while ago).

That's correct; thanks for noticing the ambiguity and providing the
clarification.

> IMO, OpenAFS 1.6 should support EL6 (Linux 2.6) until either one reaches
> its end of life, and 1.8 should support EL7 (Linux 3.10) in the same

And I think you will be the driving force keeping 1.6 alive, so I take
this opportunity to thank you once again for your work as Release Manager.

-Ben

> fashion. If other "Enterprise"/"LTS"/"stable" distributions in wide use
> (SLE, Ubuntu LTS, debian stable, ...) set stricter boundary conditions,
> those should be honored. But all this is "ideally" and of course subject
> to availability resources.