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Bug 335374

Summary:	Update plan to RHEL 6
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	PMC	Assignee:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Mike_Wilson, overholt, Silenio_Quarti
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.7 M7
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2011-01-25 15:08:40 EST

In bug 333116 Martin asked:

... RHEL5-x64 is one of the widely used Linux distros, and RHEL6
is likely becoming one. Could these be promoted to Reference Platform?

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2011-01-25 15:17:51 EST

There are really three questions here:

- Do we add RHEL 6 as a reference platform
- Do we remove RHEL 5
- Do we remove RHEL 4

I thought we typically just listed the "latest" release of a given OS so I'm not sure why we have RHEL 4 listed at all. Was there an issue at some point in the past about 64-bit support on RHEL 5?

I think the default decision should be add RHEL 6 and remove 4/5. For SLES and Ubuntu we only list the latest one.

I checked with SWT and they haven't got a machine with the final RHEL 6 release yet, although they have done some testing on a beta. We should at least wait for them to do more thorough testing on RHEL 6 final before we move up.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2011-04-04 13:06:45 EDT

At the January 21 PMC meeting we agreed to change the RHEL reference platform to 6 (dropping RHEL 4 and 5).

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/PMC

I will update this in the next plan revision. Since this is already mentioned in bug 341264 I will mark this as a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 341264 ***