Re: Dropping Debian Stretch support

["Roberto A. Foglietta" <roberto.foglietta@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:03, Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> Am Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:24:13 +0300
> schrieb Anton Mikanovich <amikan@ilbers.de>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Debian Stretch state was moved to EOL long ago (since July 2020), so
> > we are going to end its support inside Isar.
> > This will allow us to get rid of many hacks inside Isar core and
> > single example packages.
> >
> > Did anyone against dropping Stretch support?
>
> The contrary, full support from my side!
>

Supporting a distribution like Stretch which is End-Of-Life since July
2020 slow down the development of ISAR project in many ways:

- prevents to adopt solutions not supported by Stretch
- pollute the project with code/configs that cannot be developed further
- increase the number of tests for validating the product

The correct approach in this case is to fork or branch the project and
develop the fork/branch independently. Time to time when necessary
some changes could be backported from the ISAR to the fork/branch.
Moreover, this approach allows the business and/or management to have
a specific view about the effort needed to support that branch/fork.
This last aspect is very important for computing correctly the
cost/value of supporting a legacy platform.

I hope this helps, R-