Please, don't understand me bad. I never said that bugs in 7.5 will never be fixed. At contrary, I think they will be solved and it will be stable. But see SapDB users side: we have a stable build (with some bugs that still taking out our sleep), we are in february, and in march if we need support, we will be forced to upgrade to 7.5 that is (AFAIK) unstable.
I don't want to be antipatic with Sap Team. I have my best honors to give to you due efforts done in all this time. Whenever appropriate I've contributed with bug reporting (even one bug was fixed by me in SapDB web - stange, it never was fixed in distributions, I don't know why). As always, I thank you by this opportunity of using this great database that is SapDB and to learn about supporting experiences with you all. I don't want to generate a war about what is being done. I just asking to expand time to remove support for SapDB 7.4/7.3. At least to when 7.5 is so stable (critical bugs - that take server off-line unexpectedly - only). I never, ever, tryied 7.5 by myself due bug reports made by others in mailing list about crashes and so on. It isn't different from 7.3/7.4 startup days (we had all that problems in beggining), but today the problems ins't there (I've some SapDB 7.4.3.27 working by months without any kind of intervention, either in Linux and Win32), and I can't suggest to change a stable 7.4 install by some that could crash as reported by someone in 7.5. That's the reason I've asked in my previous mail (and nobody answered): how stable is 7.5? Is there no known bug that crashes the server? If there, what's the condition? Can I consult some bug database to know this? What was internal changes/fixes/improvements (technically talking, not "white papers" about what is new I've found in MySql web site) between 7.4 and 7.5? All that we need is information. If you put some light over our fears, we will migrate. But since 7.5 releases we are near to dark era... No information released about changes (only some days ago the info about what changed between initial 7.5 and 7.5.0.8 appeared somewhere - not in the official site), the inforation about release 7.4.3.31 is only in old site, the real bugs in 7.5 aren't avaliable anywhere, and so on. Edson Richter ----- Original Message ----- From: Zabach, Elke To: 'Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:39 AM Subject: RE: mailing list support Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: > > > But what about the people that can't migrate to 7.5 due to > several new bugs introduced? And the ones never fixed in 7.4? > I need to say that I'm afraid to migrate to 7.5 due to the > several bug (crash) reports in the mailing lists. > > How much is really stable the 7.5 bundle? Can we expect same > stability/performance as achived by excelent 7.3/7.4? Yes, of course, why do you believe that we will NOT fix bugs for 7.5 after having had experience with our bug-fixing process in 7.3 / 7.4? 7.5 is the newest version available with several changes in it and therefore some chance to have introduced new bugs. But why do you think it is more unstable than the versions 7.3 / 7.4 at that time (shortly after first release)? Which are the problems which are more serious than that we had with other versions? And by the way: bug-fixing is one thing, to release them when the whole surrounding (where, who is responsible,...) changes at that time is another topic, making it even harder to release versions at that time. But we will be able to handle that in the future as we did in the past. ==> please believe that all of the developer will do what they can to keep/make the system stable as they did before. Elke SAP Labs Berlin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dittmar, Daniel > To: 'Ajit Aranha' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:20 AM > Subject: RE: mailing list support > > > > Saw the main page of sapdb.org. This says that support > for 7.3 / 7.4 > > will be available only to sap customers after march 2004. > Does this > > apply to questions on this mailing list too? > > Yes in principle. We won't rule out that we'll be answering > questions about 7.3/7.4. But these answers will sound more > and more like 'this bug has been fixed in 7.5.*'. > > Daniel Dittmar > > -- > Daniel Dittmar > SAP Labs Berlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.581 / Virus Database: 368 - Release Date: 9/2/2004 -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.581 / Virus Database: 368 - Release Date: 9/2/2004 -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
