Plans for Drupal 6 support after February 24th, 2016?

[dsnopek]

Drupal 6 will officially be unsupported by the Drupal project after February 24th, 2016:

https://www.drupal.org/drupal-6-eol

What are the plans for BOA's support of Drupal 6?

Will there be a way to continue using BOA for Drupal over the long-term (ie. even if that means staying on an old version or a using a special "channel")?

[omega8cc]

We will support Drupal/Pressflow 6 in all new releases, as long as available PHP versions will allow to use it (and we run our own Pressflow 6 site on PHP 5.6 for many months).

Furthermore, BOA installation and upgrades (both for barracuda and octopus) come with legacy mode: https://github.com/omega8cc/boa/blob/master/docs/UPGRADE.txt#L117

Currently the legacy mode points to BOA-2.2.9, but soon you will be able to specify also 2.3.x and 2.4.x series: https://github.com/omega8cc/boa/blob/master/aegir/tools/bin/boa#L1199 (it now works for installation only).

Note that BOA-2.2.9 comes with ancient PHP 5.2 and still supports Drupal 5, which is a good example on how we interpret the "legacy" keyword.

This means that you will be able to run legacy Drupal versions indefinitely, and still run system upgrades with barracuda up-legacy system or (soon) barracuda up-legacy 2.2 or barracuda up-legacy 2.3 or barracuda up-legacy 2.4 etc.

[dsnopek]

That's great to hear, thanks! :-)