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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Colin!

On Apr 27, Colin Charles wrote:
> > Hi, Colin!
> > 
> > On Apr 26, Colin Charles wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> 
> >> I just read:
> >> 	https://mariadb.org/about/maintenance-policy/
> >> 
> >> It says the 5 year boundary date for support ending for 10.0 is 31
> >> Mar 2019, and later goes on to specify why 5.5 has a later EOL,
> >> "The MariaDB Foundation may decide to maintain selected releases
> >> beyond the normal 5 years if they are in exceptionally widespread
> >> use. As MariaDB 5.5 is included in multiple prominent Linux
> >> distributions with a lifespan beyond 2017, the Foundation is
> >> committed in maintaining it until 2020."
> >> 
> >> Is SUSE Enterprise Linux Server 12, with MariaDB Server 10.0, not
> >> considered a “prominent Linux distribution”? SLES12 released in
> >> 2014, comes with MariaDB Server 10.0, and requires at least 10
> >> years of support
> >> (https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/).
> >> 
> >> Just checking to see if the maintenance policy above is in error
> > 
> > No, it is not an error.
> > There was a discussion and a decision specifically for 5.5.
> > We simply haven't discussed 10.0 EOL yet, there was no decision not to
> > extend 10.0 lifespan.
> 
> OK. Glad this is on the radar. I think it makes sense to have these
> discussions in public so that others can reference them to know why
> such a decision was made. This is all about transparency, isn’t it?

Yes, I agree.

> > But good point about SUSE, thanks.
> > Apparently we need to discuss 10.0 EOL too, someday in the course of the
> > next two years.
> 
> Thank you. Also pay attention to MariaDB Server 10.1 dates to sync
> with Debian (3 years from 2017, but also the LTS folk) -
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

Yes, but I'm sure that Otto will take care of that.
He won't forget about Debian :)

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@xxxxxxxxxxx