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.
PS: SmartMachines are in the same boat as Amazon Linux as a "cloud only" OS
that is going to need test-kitchen integration.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Mark Harrison <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In platform-support-policy.md:
>
> > +
> > +Chef Client support policies also apply to Ohai, since that is a dependency.
> > +
> > +### Tier 1 Support
> > +
> > +Tier 1 supported platforms are those for which Chef builds native binary "Omnitruck" (full-stack installer) packages. For each platform, there is equipment in the CI pipeline to perform client verification tests (CVT) on machines of that platform.
> > +
> > +Platform | Versions | Architectures | Package Format | Built on
> > +--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
> > +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
>
> Re: OpenIndiana - I don't think it's used by many people, but my
> familiarity has been mostly with OmniOS (for somewhat obvious reasons). If
> the level of effort is small (and it sounds like it is), we should support
> both OmniOS and SmartOS.
>
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