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OCI Conformance/Certification Working Group
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Reasonable timeline for version deprecation #9

Closed RobDolinMS closed 7 years ago

RobDolinMS commented 8 years ago

Certification program version deprecation should align with product cycles.

Ex: Products with software on disk may be easier to update than products with software burned into silicon.

hkamezawa commented 7 years ago

I think that customers needs to move from old platform to new platform because of product life cycle. Then need to move container apps from old platform to new platform.

So, a certification spec supported by the both of old/new platform is desirable. I think enterprise's product life cycle is 5 years which is aligned to server hardware life cycle.

When we set timeline as 3 years, customer needs to update certification once in its life cycle but can have a version which can cover both of new and old without trouble. So, 3-5 years will work, I think. (*)2 years are too short for them and , of course, longer is better for them.

I don't want to delay the evolution of container spec, so, having "Long Term Spec version" with opinions of TOB may be an idea.

RobDolinMS commented 7 years ago

Proposal for addressing this is in PR #29