On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Leonard Isham wrote:
I plan to treat the "TO" (topology-supporting) branch as a beta series
until the 2.1 beta series formally begins -- that means it will be
updated, changes from the 2.0.x branch will get merged in, and when I make
releases, there will always be a .tar.gz, .zip, and Windows installer
.exe.
OK than I have to decide if I'll use beta in production. Don't get me
wrong I respect the quality of your beta releases more than most
others. I have OpenVPN RCs in production, but I don't know about
beta...
I'd just like to say that I think it's the right decision to leave a
rather big new feature like this outside 2.0. A stable release is called
"stable" just because new features isn't added.
And a new feature is a "beta" feature regardless how well-written it is
before it has been extensivly tested by a lot of people for some time.
That's why we have beta releases.
But that won't stop me from putting this new beta into production long
before it reaches a stable release. I'll start a new OpenVPN process with
this beta release on my production servers as soon as I get time and start
testing first on my own, and then in a small group. I recommend you todo
the same, then after a few weeks when we are number of people here on the
list that have been reporting it working flawless, I'll consider it stable
enough to use in my production environments for all my users.
How long you want to wait is up to you, I'm just saying it's not getting
more stable just because it changes name from beta->rc->stable, it will
get more stable the sooner we start testing it. And here's the great thing
with a userspace VPN like OpenVPN - You don't need to setup a whole new
box to try it, you can run several diffrent versions of OpenVPN in
parallell.
I will also support this beta release by creating Windows installation
packages with OpenVPN GUI and the OpenVPN beta.
Cheers and good night // Mathias
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