[Open-scap] Phasing out the RHEL6 CI

[Marek Haicman]

I agree with Shawn. From technical perspective - we haven't had special 
RHEL6 maintenance branch in the github project. It is the same maint-1.2 
which was further developed for use in RHEL7. So honestly - whatever is 
working on current maint-1.2 branch (version 1.2.17) will probably not 
be trivial to backport to RHEL6 codebase anyway (version 1.2.13, 1000 
commits behind). So any RHEL6 fix will have be bespoke.

But we are still committed to fix urgent stuff as needed, regardless of 
state of upstream CI

Marek


On 2/26/19 6:20 PM, Shawn Wells wrote:
> 
> On 2/26/19 12:07 PM, Boucher, William wrote:
>> My only concern is that sometimes a government customer will mandate 
>> using some flavor of RHEL 6, for whatever reason they may have. For 
>> example, we have a government customer mandating we use 6.5 at the 
>> moment. And they are perfectly happy to have us STIG the 6.5 OS 
>> manually, page by page, if there is no way to automate it.
> 
> 
> The end of RHEL 6's maintenance support 2 phase isn't until 30-NOV-2020 
> [0]. Until then OpenSCAP should be prepared to release security 
> advisories (RHSAs) and urgent bug fixes (RHBAs) for OpenSCAP.
> 
> Developers judgement call whether downstream RHSAs and RHBAs can be 
> released in a timely, high-quality manner, without an upstream CI.
> 
> In reality there may have been little to no RHSAs or RHBAs for OpenSCAP. 
> However it's the Red Hat brand promise that if there ever are, we'll be 
> ready.
> 
> 
> [0] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
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