Package support and usage thresholds

Refer to the following sections for details about the support and usage thresholds.

Support threshold

Progress Chef supports packages that aren’t dependencies for Progress Chef tools under the following conditions:

• There isn’t a published end-of-life (EOL) date within the first two years of the LTS-YYYY support duration at the time of consideration. If the OEM drops support or doesn’t provide a fix to known vulnerabilities during the LTS time frame, no updates will be made available.
• There aren’t any open high or critical CVEs for that package at the time of consideration. If any released package has a critical or high CVE post-release, the package will be fixed as part of the next minor or directed refresh.
• It should have a valid licensing model that allows Progress Chef to distribute it as a Habitat package.

Usage threshold

Requested packages are added to a support backlog and prioritized if they fall in one of the following categories:

• It’s for a commonly-used development tool or programming language.
• It’s for high-demand commercial off-the-shelf software.