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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
