Proposal: drop support for Hyper-V 2008R2

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 09:15 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:34:47PM -0400, Matt Coleman wrote:
> > On Oct 30, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Dropping 2008R2 support is a no-brainer.
> > > 
> > > Can we got further? Our policy[1] for Linux is
> > > 
> > >  The project aims to support the most recent major version at all
> > >  times. Support for the previous major version will be dropped 2
> > >  years after the new major version is released or when the vendor
> > >  itself drops support, whichever comes first. 
> > > 
> > > If we adopted the same policy for Windows Server[2], then we could
> > > drop support for 2012R2 today and support for 2016 in the next
> > > release.
> > > 
> > > Is there a good reason why we should *not* do that?
> > 
> > We need 2012R2 support at Datto, so I'd like to keep it in there for 
> > the time being. This is for integration with our customers' systems, so 
> > we don't have control over the OS version. It still accounts for a 
> > significant portion of our customer base.
> 
> Given that Datto is the only org to make significant contributions to
> the HyperV driver in years, I'm fine with us keeping 2012R2. Our support
> policy is basically written to suit the needs of the people who are taking
> on the maintainership, so its fine to evolve it.
> 
> I simply ask that the docs/platforms.rst and/or drvhyperv.html.in pages
> be updated to reflect what we're doing wrt HyperV support.

Sounds good to me as well.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization