I'd be in favor of only maintaining one rev behind for compatibility (2.7.x will support 2.6.x but not earlier).
Cheers, Ryan On Nov 24, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: >> Gary Law <gary...@garylaw.net> writes: >>> On 24 November 2010 23:50, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >>>> I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. >>>> >>>> We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from >>>> XMLRPC to REST. >>>> >>>> How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, >>>> such that it only supported Puppet clients 0.25.x and higher? >>> >>> That depends on the support model (for bug fixes) puppetlabs is prepared to >>> support. I'd be inclined to support all recent client releases under a year >>> old at a minimum. Longer for the real enterprisey conservative shops. >>> Remember, a fair few places in the UK are still-running-IE-6 shops. >> >> One of the bits of feedback I have had from various folks out in the wider >> world is that (right or wrong) they already feel that Puppet has a pretty >> fast >> upgrade cycle and a very poor backward compatibility story. >> >>> My firm would be happy for a six month release/patch cycle, but we're not >>> change averse. Others firms I've worked for are. >> >> *nod* I think that the Debian maintainers would be less than thrilled at >> support for the versions in Debian/stable being dropped totally, and users of >> Debian would be unthrilled with needing something out of backports to talk to >> their newer Puppet server. > > To clarify, I'm not saying we're dropping support for people running > those versions, just dropping support for 2.7.x server to talk to > 0.24.x clients and earlier. > > I believe we've always suggested keeping client and server versions > close, with the server being upgraded before the clients. > > The people with Debian stable installs can continue to run the version > of server and client that is available to them, same goes for any > platform that only offers 0.24.x, 0.25.x or 2.6.x. > > I'm suggesting this for 2.7.x. Are people really likely to be running > 2.7.x servers with 0.24.x clients? I think I would advise people > that's not a particularly wonderful combination anyway, given how much > code is shared between the server and the client. > > If you're packaging puppet servers to run 2.7.x, you've already done > all the work to package puppet clients for 2.7.x. > > > -- > Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
