Re: Criteria for upgrading to 3.x releases in PROD

2016-04-23 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Jack, The question was about publishing "most stable" release on Apache website as it done before 3.x. Regarding your comments, I still feel adventure cant happen in production systems. And you should certainly test every release before upgrading but you woulf not like to upgrade to latest relea

Re: Criteria for upgrading to 3.x releases in PROD

2016-04-23 Thread Jack Krupansky
Is the question whether a new application can go into production with 3.x, or whether an existing application in production with 2.x.y should be upgraded to 3.x? For the latter, a "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy is best. And if there are critical bug fixes needed, simply upgrade the 2

Re: Criteria for upgrading to 3.x releases in PROD

2016-04-23 Thread Anuj Wadehra
Jonathan, I understand you point. In my perspective, people in production usually prefer stability over features and would always want at least emergency fix releases if not fully supported versions.I am glad that today we have such releases which are very stable and not yet EOL. Its just that u