[poky] [PATCH] poky.conf: prune SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS

[Khem Raj]

On 1/24/17 7:04 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 01:04:13PM +0000, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> Remove several old/untested distros from the list:
>> * poky-1.8 and poky-2.0 are no longer supported releases
>> * ubuntu-14.04 is an LTS but we plan to remove it from the
>>   project's autobuilder cluster as the kernel is old and
>>   it doesn't use systemd -- therefore this will no longer
>>   be tested.
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit more on the pain involved with supporting Ubuntu
> 14.04?  Or, do you expect to drop Ubuntu 16.04 in favour of 18.04 at
> around this point in 2019 and continue only supporting the latest LTS
> for Ubuntu?  I ask because supported hosts are an important part of
> companies being able to plan their use and upgrade strategies.  Thanks!
> 

ubuntu 14.04 is still not EOL until April 2019, and I think lot of folks
will keep using it until its EOLed, so it would be preferable to keep it
as a supported host.

> 
> 

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