[chef-dev] Re: Re: Supported versions

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Julian C. Dunn wrote:

> Can I also raise "what is our lifecycle policy for released versions
> of Chef". i.e. when can we stop releasing and supporting Chef 10?
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> - Julian
Historically, we’ve maintained N and N - 1.
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> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Adam Jacob 
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> > With the Chef DK showing up, it looks like we need to chat about the list 
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> > ways we as a community want to manage chef, ruby, and friends. A few 
> > things
> > we should answer:
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> > 1. What versions of ruby is the chef gem supported on?

ChefDK requires ruby 2.0+. It would not be difficult to change the one or two 
parts of the code that use Ruby 2.0 features. That said, 1.9.3 is in 
maintenance mode, only getting security updates and is scheduled for EOL next 
February. I would assume that people managing their own ruby environments are 
using some sort of version management tooling (rvm/rbenv/chruby) and all the 
tools I’m familiar with work on 2.0, so I don’t see this as an onerous 
requirement. I’m willing to be convinced otherwise if someone has a 
compelling story.
  
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> > 2. What are the reqs for having a DK built for a platform 'officially'?
For Chef to build and distribute it, we need to get a working omnibus build 
and add a build and test machine to the build cluster.  

Side note, as a team, we’ve discussed the possibility of having external 
platform maintainers. The way omnitruck is designed right now, builds of a 
particular version need to be built for all platforms before the build can be 
published; that’s probably something we’d need to fix before we could do that 
(the release engineering team is working on using artifactory for build 
publishing, but I don’t know how that might change things).
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> > What else? Noah? Ranjib?
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