Platform support policy proposal

There is a fair amount of confusion about the specific operating system platforms, platform versions, etc. that Chef Software, Inc. supports for its products. This RFC will clarify this by calling out the individual operating systems and their releases as explicitly supported or not.
We definitely need to support SLES at Tier1. It's huge in Europe and in
north american scientific computing.
-s


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Julian C. Dunn <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In platform-support-policy.md:
>
> > +--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
> > +AIX | 6.1, 7.1 | ppc64 | bff | AIX 6.1
> > +CentOS | 5, 6, 7 | i386, x86_64 | rpm | RHEL 5
> > +FreeBSD | 9, 10 | i386, amd64 | pkg_add pkg | FreeBSD 9
> > +Mac OS X | 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 | x86_64 | dmg | Mac OS 10.7
> > +Oracle Enterprise Linux | 5, 6, 7 | i386, x86_64 | rpm | RHEL 5
> > +Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 5, 6, 7 | i386, x86_64 | rpm | RHEL 5
> > +Solaris | 9, 10, 11 | sparc, x86 (10 and 11 only) | shar | Solaris 9
> > +Windows | 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2 | x86, x86_64 | msi | Windows 2008R2
> > +Ubuntu Linux | 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 | x86, x86_64 | deb | Ubuntu 10.04
> > +
> > +### Tier 2 Support
> > +
> > +Tier 2 supported platforms are those on which Omnitruck will serve packages, but those packages may not have been built on that OS variant. Additionally, we do no CVT on these platforms.
> > +
> > +* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 11
>
> I guess I question the need to maintain the infrastructure for that and to
> treat SLES as Tier 1. Do we have enough SLES users to justify it?
>
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