Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-15 Thread Sebastien Goasguen
On May 14, 2013, at 1:57 PM, David Nalley wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Trippaers > wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 14 mei 2013, at 18:28, "David Nalley" wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Hugo Trippaers >>> wrote: Hey all, We hav

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 05/14/2013 05:34 PM, Hugo Trippaers wrote: Hey all, We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of the things I value CloudStack for. However as a developers there are some drawbacks to this. It means eve

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread David Nalley
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 14 mei 2013, at 18:28, "David Nalley" wrote: > >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Hugo Trippaers >> wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older >>> rel

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Hugo Trippaers
Sent from my iPhone On 14 mei 2013, at 18:28, "David Nalley" wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Hugo Trippaers > wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older >> releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of the things

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread David Nalley
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > Hey all, > > We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older > releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of the things I > value CloudStack for. > > However as a developers there are some drawbacks to

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Wei ZHOU
+1 Wei 2013/5/14 Hugo Trippaers > Hey all, > > We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older > releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of the things I > value CloudStack for. > > However as a developers there are some drawbacks to this. It means every

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:39:15PM +0530, Prasanna Santhanam wrote: > There's proven methods of doing database change managment [1] and we've > taken a good first step in establishing a base schema [2] at 4.0. It's > probably the right time to think about these things now that 4.1 has > been stalli

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Prasanna Santhanam
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:34:00PM +, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > Hey all, > > We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from > older releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of > the things I value CloudStack for. > > However as a developers there are some draw

Re: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Chip Childers
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:34:00PM +, Hugo Trippaers wrote: > Hey all, > > We have invested a lot of effort in creating upgrade paths from older > releases to the latest version. As a sysadmin this is one of the things I > value CloudStack for. > > However as a developers there are some dr

RE: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Giles Sirett
+1 Hugo - I think that's a very pragmatic approach. Whilst it would be great to upgrade any version to any other version, I think most people are used to sequential paths for upgrade of server platforms. Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 giles.sir...@shapeblue.com

RE: [DISCUSS] Backwards compatibility

2013-05-14 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
+1 Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: Hugo Trippaers [mailto:htrippa...@schubergphilis.com] Sent: 14 May 2013 16:34 To: 'dev@cloudstack.apache.org' Subject: [DISCUSS] Backward