On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ian Ward Comfort
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> For what it's worth, we finally took the 2.6.x plunge with the
> >> 2.6.6 packages in EPEL testing, and have had no problems with the
> >> upgrade. So consider this a +1 for promotion to stable.
>
> Great to hear, thanks Ian.
>
> > Yes, I have been running my deployment on 2.6 for a while without
> > incident, actually I have had far fewer problems running on 2.6 than
> > I ever did on 0.2.5.
> >
> > Why are distros dragging their feet on including puppet 2.6?
>
> Well, I think we'd have regretted it if we'd have rushed 2.6.0 into
> Fedora and EPEL.  A good number of bugs and regressions were squashed
> thanks to the testing and patches from all the good folks here.  If we
> can update from 0.25.5 to 2.6.6 and make it smooth for the users who
> don't follow this list so closely, we'll earn some favor for future
> updates that may have a few incompatible changes.
>
>
Distros tend to care about a consistent, stable experience.

It takes time to guarantee that this is the case.

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