Issue #21950 has been updated by Michael Stahnke.

Status changed from Investigating to Needs Decision

Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> Ruby 1.8.7 is officially dead and there are a lot of performance improvements 
> that come with 1.9.

Ruby 1.8.7 on RHEL/CentOS isn't dead. Red Hat will be back porting patches 
until 2020. 

I have seen very little performance improvements with Ruby 1.9 and Puppet. 1.9 
is much faster for certain things, I didn't see Puppet as one of them during my 
testing.
> 
> Also, if we get this out of the way now, when someone finds a security 
> vulnerability in 1.8 we won't have to do a mad dash to try to work it all out 
> later.

Why would there be a security vulnerability that Red Hat wouldn't take care of? 
There wouldn't be mad dash.
> 
> Since 1.9 has a set of maintained (if not officially supported by RH) RPMs, 
> it would be *great* to not have to re-do all that work.

Who would make sure that updates happen here? I haven't seen the complete 
support stance on SC yet from Red Hat. I think they'll be great, but I'm not 
sure if they'll be extra money for people's subscriptions, or how they'll work 
overall. 

I also don't really understand why we should have two ways install Puppet on 
the same OS when neither has any significant advantages over the other.




I still haven't been convinced this is a great thing to do. 




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Feature #21950: Puppet Packages should be built to support Ruby 1.9 from 
Software Collections.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/21950#change-95482

* Author: Trevor Vaughan
* Status: Needs Decision
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Michael Stahnke
* Category: 
* Target version: 
* Affected Puppet version: 3.2.3
* Keywords: software collections, rhel, centos, security
* Branch: 
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Many RHEL/CentOS users wish to move to Ruby 1.9 but without having to roll 
their own environment and repackage all Puppet packages.

The Fedora Software Collections gives us this capability and I would like to 
request that a set of packages be rolled to support Ruby from SC.

https://fedorahosted.org/SoftwareCollections/


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