Fwd: [Evergreen] openSUSE 11.4 Evergreen status

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Subject: [Evergreen] openSUSE 11.4 Evergreen status
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:44:55 +0200
From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <>
To: evergreen@lists.rosenauer.org

Hi,

as you probably know our initial commitment to support 11.4 within
Evergreen was until July 2014.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen

While I was hoping that we can keep 11.4 alive for some time longer this
is currently not possible from what I would call the “core team” which
is Stefan and myself. We are too busy nowadays to be able to scan and
patch every issue we get aware of.

While some of you submitted patches in the past there would be much more
to do to call 11.4 “Evergreen supported”.

Therefore I will soon announce that 11.4 went out of “official”
Evergreen support but will accept further contributions to fix critical
and security issues. I’ll try to provide them for my area of expertise.

If anyone wants to step up and take the responsibility to monitor
security issues and patch them, we would be happy to help you getting up
to speed and help in reviews and release process.

Also please note that nothing changed for the plans of Evergreen support
for 13.1.

Some numbers from 11.4 Evergreen (as far as I was able to get them easily):

Evergreen lifetime: 21 months
11.4 overall lifetime (incl. Evergreen): 41 months / 3 years 5 months

Evergreen lifetime numbers:
Released update source packages: 791
Unique touched source packages: 175
rough number of patches (based on incident counter): 312

Let me quote Marcus’ numbers from official maintenance lifetime:

Total updates: 723
Security: 416
Recommended: 306
Optional: 1

Thanks,
Wolfgang


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On 2014-09-04 03:35, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> This may be of interest.

From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:39:58 +0200

Hi,

as you probably know our initial commitment to support 11.4 within
Evergreen was until July 2014.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen

While I was hoping that we can keep 11.4 alive for some time longer this
is currently not possible from what I would call the “core team” which
is Stefan and myself. We are too busy nowadays to be able to scan and
patch every issue we get aware of.

Thanks to you all who contributed to the success of Evergreen/11.4!

The important message is:

openSUSE 11.4 Evergreen is not actively maintained anymore!

So if you can, we recommend to switch to openSUSE 13.1 as soon as
possible which is still planned to be an Evergreen release.

Some more details below:
The repository already got and will most likely get more updates from
package maintainers who care about 11.4 and/or their packages though.
You noticed that with recent releases of patches for the bash and NSS
issues already, BUT this is no guarantee that every security issue
will be fixed.
We will accept contributions from anyone though and I will try to take
care about “my” packages.

Some numbers from 11.4 Evergreen (as far as I was able to get them easily):

Evergreen lifetime: 21 months
11.4 overall lifetime (incl. Evergreen): 41 months / 3 years 5 months

Evergreen lifetime numbers (w/o official maintenance period):
Released update source packages: 804
Unique touched source packages: 177
rough number of patches (based on incident counter): 320

Let me also quote Marcus’ numbers from official maintenance lifetime:

Total updates: 723
Security: 416
Recommended: 306
Optional: 1

Thanks,
Wolfgang


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