Would it be possible to come up with a compromise solution that meets the requirements of stability and freshness?
Here is one idea:
What if SVN updates were only submitted on Sunday through Wednesday?
Users can then update on the day of the week that meets their needs. For example, people who want to help test new (and potentially risky) code can update cron on Thursday or Friday. People who want a more stable environment choose Saturday. Of course, SVN updates would be made on any day to resolve an regression or bug that was found.
What do you think of this idea?
Cheers,
Tristan
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Paul Gear observium@gear.dyndns.org wrote:
I update automatically in cron.daily. Because you tell me to.
If i have to choose between shiny/new and stable, i will always choose stable, all other things being equal.
On 08/02/2013 07:23 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote:
A majority of users actually seem to update pretty regularly.
We assume this is because they like the new things (and the fixing of problems) rather than because we told them to, because the only people we tell to update regularly are the 10% of users present on this list :)
Adam.
Paul Gear observium@gear.dyndns.org wrote:
On 08/02/2013 07:03 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote:
On 2013-08-01 21:30, Stefan Milo wrote:
A tool like observium is often used by people in Operations. People in Operations tend to favor stability over new features. The old if it's not broken mantra...
Well then, you probably want to be using Cacti. Judging by the update habits of our existing userbase, they agree with us.
"Agree" is much too strong a term; "tolerate" would be better; "it's better than using Cacti" would probably be more accurate than both. :-)
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