Hey Sam, following up from Puppet Conf. Anything I can do to assist with forthcoming 2.7.x releases? In particular, the full deprecation notices you mentioned in person would be great to get into a release!
Cheers, Aaron On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:03:18 PM UTC-7, Sam Kottler wrote: > > Will Farrington, Andrew Parker, Mike Stahnke, and I just had a conversation > at PuppetConf about the future of 2.7 and decided that Will and I will be > maintaining and managing releases for the 2.7 branch. This means that Puppet > Labs will be hosting 2.7 packages on the releases page and in package repos > at least until September 30, 2014 when the Puppet Enterprise 2.x lifecycle > ends. > > Will and I will write the release notes for 2.7 and will likely setup a > separate Jenkins instance to run integration and functional tests. We'd love > some help on the QA side going forward so feel free to reach out if you're > interested in getting involved. > > One of the motivations behind this change is that the packages in EPEL and > Debian wheezy rely (or will very soon) on a stable 2.7 branch due to the > large number of breaking changes in 3.0+. This branch will serve as an > upstream for those repos. > > > Let me know if you've got any questions. > > > -Sam > > > On Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:28:08 AM UTC-7, Michael Stanhke wrote: >> >> The time has come for us to say good-bye to the Puppet 2.7 series. >> This means the security fixes, bug fixes, and features provided for >> Puppet 2.7 since its release in June 2011 will cease on October 1, >> 2013. >> >> We strongly encourage users who have not already upgraded to move >> forward to the Puppet 3 series, originally released on Sept 28, 2012. >> This version is actively developed and maintained, with Puppet 3.2.2 >> released June 18 and 3.2.3 currently in a release candidate phase. To >> support your upgrade, please make use of the following resources: >> >> Puppet Labs Upgrade Guide: >> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/upgrading.html >> Web: http://ask.puppetlabs.com >> IRC: #puppet >> Mailing list: [email protected] >> >> >> Thanks, >> Michael Stahnke >> Engineering >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
