[Rdo-list] Will RDO support Juno on CentOS6?

[Liping Mao -X (limao - YI JIN XIN XI FU WU(SU ZHOU)YOU XIAN GONG SI at Cisco)]

Thanks Ihar for your kindly help, It makes sense.

Regards,
Liping Mao

-----Original Message-----
From: Ihar Hrachyshka [mailto:ihrachys at redhat.com] 
Sent: 2014年9月25日 22:27
To: Liping Mao -X (limao - YI JIN XIN XI FU WU(SU ZHOU)YOU XIAN GONG SI at Cisco); rdo-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Rdo-list] Will RDO support Juno on CentOS6?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On 25/09/14 16:08, Liping Mao -X (limao - YI JIN XIN XI FU WU(SU ZHOU)YOU XIAN GONG SI at Cisco) wrote:
> Hi Ihar,
> 
> Thanks very much for your quick response.
> 
> I'm a little bit curious about why Juno do not support EL6, is this 
> because CentOS6 is using python2.6 , and Juno is the release to 
> support python 2.6? And it seems like if we want to upgrade from 
> Icehouse/Havana to juno in production, we need to upgrade CentOS6 to 
> CentOS7 ...

The reasons behind it are mostly about not enough time to properly maintain parallel releases for EL6 and EL7. We've experienced that need to support two branches requires a lot of energy that is better spent to make EL7 release more mature.

Upstream still supports Juno for Python 2.6, but support will be dropped in Kilo (the next cycle).

As for the upgrade path, yes, you'll need EL7 to be able to use RDO Juno. You will need to migrate to EL7 in the future anyway if you're planning to use pieces from Kilo.

BTW the same approach is true for the next version of Red Hat commercial OpenStack distribution (RHEL-OSP6 based on Juno).

I hope that helps,
/Ihar
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin)

iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUJCZIAAoJEC5aWaUY1u570q8IAIgLpPSjNbyEwMC4czAeI2xH
vMTokJQ89clPQdTyYqkYHcgnX4S6cfcvQxyMCz/qJTpCPPh7tG37Y5cZxDQc904O
IcGkoHBQn4tplfEdJnslxgHlBeQmdSYzV0sWmyqRbdPlxvY5UH7ihWz3yHvUvcFa
bLdiPUplsntE41rF9cvM4+ZSRDpCZhPiwQR4ntvYFHmt3dR4pLjOVi/XKPxWjEwN
U5xcG854MVei/G/XV2cvNgDIzY6ybqTsoEjDnfA22lHgH8DwmIkSMgp/hnyiVzqX
dLdBrlVkFfma5QFthfp/abZcTNu7k9+NA6JUKvYvbsXuV9Kapo5N+46AhkrgFFI=
=hg50
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----