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.
Yes, we need to have a broader set of DK supported platforms.


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Dan DeLeo <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In platform-support-policy.md:
>
> > +* Ubuntu 10.04LTS, 12.04LTS, 14.04LTS
> > +* RHEL 5.x and 6.x
> > +* CentOS 5.x and 6.x
> > +* Oracle 5.x and 6.x
> > +
> > +### Unsupported
> > +
> > +* Any other Linux or UNIX distributions
> > +* Windows
> > +
> > +## ChefDK
> > +
> > +### Supported
> > +
> > +* Windows 7, 8, 8.1
> > +* RHEL 5.x, 6.x
>
> Expanding on this point, our goal is for ChefDK to be the thing that you
> install on your workstation to use Chef, period. I'm pretty sure we have a
> worthwhile chunk of user base using Arch/Gentoo/Fedora/Etc. for
> workstations. Do we want to add a note about how you get a new thing on
> this list (and how does that work)? Initially we want(ed) to keep the range
> of supported things pretty narrow so we can iterate quickly without
> spending a ton of time fixing weird platform issues, but eventually I think
> we need to support possibly a wider range of platforms than chef-client
> (but there won't be 100% overlap since some platforms are more common for
> workstation and some are used for servers almost exclusively).
>
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