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

[Perry Myers]

On 09/26/2014 10:53 AM, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> There are a few aspects of supporting a distribution:
>>
>> * Packaging of all of the core components of OpenStack, which means
>>   keeping dependencies up to date, dealing with rebases from the stable
>>   branch releases, backporting critical fixes from the stable branch
>>
>> * Maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting CI jobs
>>
>> * Test day work, making sure that the distro works smoothly
>>
>> * Bug triage for things specific to the platform (i.e. a bug on CentOS6
>>   that is not present on CentOS7)
> 
> * Deal with differences in base components like kernel, libvirt, qemu-kvm
> 
> With RHEL6 it is becoming increasingly impossible to get required
> features into above components to support OpenStack, we already went
> through to hoops until Icehouse.
> Solution could be to replace all those with upstream rebuilds
> (kernel-ml, virt-preview for EL) but what's then left from the base OS
> and how supportable would be that combination?

I would say instead that we instead just accept that EL6 OpenStack going
forward will have more limited features and certain things will not work.