What is the expected lifetime of code we ship?

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

On 9/15/17 12:16, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> My straw man is that we will support our current code in all versions of
> major OSes that are supported by the vendor.  But I haven't figured out what
> "support" means.  Does it include old versions?  How old?
> 
> What happens to conservative organizations that are still (happily?) running
> an OS version that is no longer supported because it works and they don't
> want to rock the boat?  (or don't have the skills to upgrade)

Speaking only from my perspective as only a sysadmin, for a core 
application like timekeeping, I wouldn't expect support to be valid for 
more than three years, at least in respect to feature upgrades. *Maybe* 
five years for critical security updates.

This from an admin who only a year ago took a dust-riddled strictly 
internal server (that I inherited) and upgraded it from etch to lenny to 
squeeze to wheezy.

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Paul Theodoropoulos
www.anastrophe.com