RE: Question on feature stability in 1.5

[Ahmed Osman]

Hi Lukas

Horribly late response but thanks for the thorough reply. I've been doing 
additional testing and HAProxy is filling all our needs thus far (I've got one 
implementation that I'll send to the DL separately). No bugs or odd behavior to 
report yet.



-  Ahmed Osman


-Original Message-
From: Lukas Tribus [mailto:luky...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 3:01 AM
To: Ahmed Osman
Cc: haproxy@formilux.org
Subject: RE: Question on feature stability in 1.5

Hi Ahmed,

 I wanted to find out if the features I'm using can be considered 
 complete for 1.5.
 [...]
 if these are feature complete (or stable)

The latest 1.5 snapshot should be fairly usable also in production, but since 
there is no feature freeze, that will very likely change with new features 
beeing commited to 1.5.

If you would like to run development software in production, you need to do 
extensive testing prior to deploying it and be aware that troubleshooting bugs 
will likely be needed. If thats something you are willing to do - great (that 
way you help making 1.5 more stable). On the other hand, if you would like a 
stable solution which is as stable as possibile, you better not use to haproxy 
1.5. Nginx may be a solution an alternative at that point (it does not have all 
those fancy load- balancing features haproxy has, but it may be enough for your 
deployment).


Regards,
Lukas 

RE: Question on feature stability in 1.5

[Lukas Tribus]

Hi Ahmed,

 I wanted to find out if the features I'm using can be considered
 complete for 1.5.
 [...]
 if these are feature complete (or stable)

The latest 1.5 snapshot should be fairly usable also in production, 
but since there is no feature freeze, that will very likely change
with new features beeing commited to 1.5.

If you would like to run development software in production, you need
to do extensive testing prior to deploying it and be aware that
troubleshooting bugs will likely be needed. If thats something you are
willing to do - great (that way you help making 1.5 more stable). On
the other hand, if you would like a stable solution which is as stable
as possibile, you better not use to haproxy 1.5. Nginx may be a solution
an alternative at that point (it does not have all those fancy load-
balancing features haproxy has, but it may be enough for your deployment).


Regards,
Lukas