Excerpts from Kevin Chadwick's message of 2013-08-21 08:45:27 -0700: > My point of view is that Debian Stable should be aiming for whatever > they believe the sweet point between stable and so usable without having > problems is and maximising security. Aka maximising productivity and > safety with no other concerns or compromises. > > Large hosting companies not having made their scripts etc. good enough > to ride out upgrades well should have nothing to do with any decision. > > In fact they are best positioned man power wise to be able to set up a > test rig and then deploy compared to small hosting companies. > > Does anyone even know for sure what the decision to switch was actually > based upon? >
IIRC, the blog post cites exactly that, too short releases. It also doesn't hurt that OpenStack does all commit gating on Ubuntu, thus making Ubuntu the preferred platform (RHEL/CentOS will likely join Ubuntu in the gate someday soon). DreamHost is a player in OpenStack, so it may be that the momentum of Ubuntu plus OpenStack is just too great to ignore with the added pain of the 2 year upgrade treadmill. I will ask them when I visit their offices at the next OpenStack LA meetup. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377104733-sup-3...@fewbar.com
