Re: [DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-03 Thread Remi Bergsma
Agree with the ideal world scenario :-) If we look at it from the other side: Why is it that people want to stay on older releases? From personal experience I know that in the beginning the 4.4 release wasn’t that stable. I upgraded production systems from 4.3.0 to 4.4.2 and it was painful. Th

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-03 Thread sebgoa
On Jul 3, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Rene Moser wrote: > Sebastien, > > So wouldn't it be nice to make clear which release is still supported > and which release is not? > > On 03.07.2015 09:20, sebgoa wrote: > >> I think we got in a situation with 4.4 that called for us to keep >> maintaining 4.3….

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-03 Thread Rene Moser
Sebastien, So wouldn't it be nice to make clear which release is still supported and which release is not? On 03.07.2015 09:20, sebgoa wrote: > I think we got in a situation with 4.4 that called for us to keep maintaining > 4.3….and even after 4.5 was released. Because 4.3 was seen as a good re

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-03 Thread sebgoa
On Jul 2, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Remi Bergsma wrote: > Bug fixing in older releases is actually a lot of work. For security related > issues we could maybe do it. > > Personally, I prefer to have a fast release cycle and smooth (tested) upgrade > paths over 2-year LTS release cycle. It's more agi

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-02 Thread Remi Bergsma
Bug fixing in older releases is actually a lot of work. For security related issues we could maybe do it. Personally, I prefer to have a fast release cycle and smooth (tested) upgrade paths over 2-year LTS release cycle. It's more agile. As a bonus, people get the new features. The more peop

[DISCUSS] LTS releases?

2015-07-02 Thread Rene Moser
Maybe a little bit off topic to the new release process, therefor a new thread... speaking about releases. I just thought about supporting LTS releases. This would mean "someone" or "we" make a commitment to add bug fixes (only) for a specified time. e.g. 2 years for a release or until the next L

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-12-01 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hi everyone, Thanks for a great discussion. I understand it may be difficult to support releases for several years with CloudStack’s fast paced development, and the statistics Leo shared are certainly not what I was aiming for. I think it will be difficult to gather agreement in this stage and

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-28 Thread Leo Simons
Hey hey, Ooh, interesting topic. I'm going to top-post because I want to focus on the big picture! * Apache HTTPD provides 8+ years of support for old releases. * Tomcat provides 6+ years of support for N-2 release. * Ant provides 12+ years of backward compatiblity, so far. (details below) I th

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread ChunFeng
-- Original -- From: "Andrei Mikhailovsky"; Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2014 08:51 PM To: "dev"; Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases ChunFeng, I think as long as there is a change to the current efforts it will improve the stability of the product. At th

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
want to have a production ready system and they perhaps be less likely to install and test the non-LTS release. Andrei - Original Message - > From: "ChunFeng" > To: "dev" > Sent: Thursday, 27 November, 2014 10:36:46 AM > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releas

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread ChunFeng
ING, POLISHING ", "then LTS becomes less important" and " I’m not in favor of supporting LTS releases as a community. " -- Regards, ChunFeng -- Original -- From: "sebgoa"; Date: Thu, Nov 27, 2014

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
kporting issues >already and I hope many developers will join this effort. Andrei - Original Message - > From: "Andrija Panic" > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, 27 November, 2014 8:01:41 AM > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases > my 2 cent

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread sebgoa
On Nov 27, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Andrija Panic wrote: > my 2 cents again: > > Whether we have this LTS release or not - is not just about having release > - we need a WAY to focus here on FIXING, POLISHING product and more > important to stimulate/make developers interested in doing so. > If this w

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-27 Thread Andrija Panic
my 2 cents again: Whether we have this LTS release or not - is not just about having release - we need a WAY to focus here on FIXING, POLISHING product and more important to stimulate/make developers interested in doing so. If this was company owned product, it would be very easy to set goals, and

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-26 Thread Pierre-Luc Dion
I'm not really in favor of LTS support, it's a good idea, but not sure it can be backed by the community?[open question here ;)]. I don't think it fit in our current model for few reasons: - Upgrade path might become impossible as patches become part of multiple versions. We could end up with prob

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
- Original Message - > Hi, > During CCCEU14 conference and over emails, I spoke with many > CloudStack users and I think most of us would like to have and use > LTS releases. I propose that; > - We encourage a habit to backport a bugfix to all qualifying > branches whether or not those b

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Hugo Trippaers
Top posting here as my remarks are mainly on the original topic. I’m not in favor of supporting LTS releases as a community. The reasoning here is that there is a huge chance that we will fragment the community in people that just want to work on the latest and greatest and some other folks who

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Daan Hoogland
Rohit, I consider you my friend and colleague, I could reply on everything said but do not want to escalate on all the details. The only remark I want to make is that 4.4 is open for commits from here on in. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > Hey Daan, > >> On 25-Nov-2014, at 7

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hey Daan, > On 25-Nov-2014, at 7:26 pm, Daan Hoogland wrote: > > That is worrying, Rohit. As the rest of your mail is already a vote of > distrust, this part says we should not release 4.4.2 as it contains > regressions. Looks like you skimmed my email and missed the following from my previous e

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Daan Hoogland
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Nux! wrote: > I like 4.4 better than 4.3 for my use case and despite the bugs I hit it does > its job. > If I were to deploy today it would still be with 4.4. Hope this makes you > feel better. :-) It makes me feel the hero;) Seriously, I don't feel bad about 4

RE: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Vadim Kimlaychuk
...@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases Daan, I like 4.4 better than 4.3 for my use case and despite the bugs I hit it does its job. If I were to deploy today it would still be with 4.4. Hope this makes you feel better. :-) Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Nux!
- > From: "Daan Hoogland" > To: "dev" > Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 13:56:12 > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Rohit Yadav > wrote: >> The 4.4 branch does not contain many

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Nux!
rant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Rohit Yadav" > To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 13:40:23 > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases > Hi Wido and Lucian, > &g

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Daan Hoogland
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > The 4.4 branch does not contain many bugfixes which are in 4.3 and on > master/4.5. That is worrying, Rohit. As the rest of your mail is already a vote of distrust, this part says we should not release 4.4.2 as it contains regressions. This

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Rohit Yadav
ck and see how 4.5 goes and start with that one? > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > - Original Message - >> From: "Rohit Yadav" >> To: "dev" >> Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Nux!
it Yadav" > To: "dev" > Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014 11:30:53 > Subject: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases > Hi, > > During CCCEU14 conference and over emails, I spoke with many CloudStack users > and I think most of us wou

Re: [DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Wido den Hollander
Hi, On 11/25/2014 12:30 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > Hi, > > During CCCEU14 conference and over emails, I spoke with many CloudStack users > and I think most of us would like to have and use LTS releases. I propose > that; > > - We encourage a habit to backport a bugfix to all qualifying branches

[DISCUSS] LTS Releases

2014-11-25 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hi, During CCCEU14 conference and over emails, I spoke with many CloudStack users and I think most of us would like to have and use LTS releases. I propose that; - We encourage a habit to backport a bugfix to all qualifying branches whether or not those branches are LTS - We contribute (unit, i