[Avocado-devel] Request to backport PR 1376 to 36lts

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 1:04 PM Amador Pahim <apahim at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
> <lookkas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guannan,
> >
> > Since 52.0 is the new LTS release, and since we usually only backport
> > bugfixes, not features, I'd ask you if porting your stuff to 52.0 is an
> > option.
> >
> > Because the request, as is, is something that I [1] would like to avoid.
> > Please let me know of your current needs and let's see how we can
> accomodate
> > them.
> >
> > [1] Of course, we need to hear the opinion of the other maintainers.
> Guys,
> > let me know what are your thoughts.
> >
>
> Yes, I was thinking about that. All your preassumptions are perfect:
> we don't backport features, 52 is the 'current' LTS and so on. On the
> other hand, v36 is still supported (until Dec 27/2017, at least) and
> it's the only LTS that supports RHEL6, so upgrading to v52 is not an
> option for him.
>
> Even if we consider it a "support exception" and backport that
> feature, it will solve a very specific problem with a workflow that
> can not be replicated after the v36 EOL. And RHEL6 is not even close
> to the EOL. According to
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata, RHEL6 can be
> someway supported up to 2024(!).
>
> So, Guannan, instead of claiming "support exception" for this feature,
> I'd recommend you to create/maintain an internal lib with all the
> features needed for your tests, even if that's just to backport
> upstream features like that one for your never-ending RHEL6 testing
> environment. How does that sound?
>

That's a great idea. Call it .backport and put your stuff there in case you
can't port your tests to 52.0.


>
> > Cheers.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:42 AM Guannan Sun <gsun at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As RHEL6 still need use 36lts, and cases updated with using the function
> >> in PR 1376:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/1376
> >>
> >> could you help backport the commits to 36lts?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Guannan
>
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