Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:25:40 -0700 schrieb Sage Weil: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> reading http://ceph.newdream.net/roadmap/ leaves me with some >> questions. :) >> >> * is there some roadmap when CEPH will be official announced >> "production ready" > > These are good questions. :) > > I've made the Ceph site link directly into the redmine roadmap, where > we'll be maintaining a detailed set of issues (features, bugs) for each > upcoming release along with a target release date. The roadmap now > includes a v1.0, which will be something we at least will cautiously > deploy in production. I would like to get there (or close to it) by the > end of the year. > > I prefer to avoid "production ready" as that is a bit of a subjective > term. Different people have different stability requirements and > expectations. That said, I would like v1.0 to be something I am > comfortable encouraging people to use in real (but non-critical) > deployments. > answering here the question from another thread because IMHO it fits better: > > what leads me to my other question: when will ceph be considered > > "stable"? > Soon? I'd be interested in hearing what you (or anyone else) expect > from a "stable" v1.0 release. as storage is a fundamental service there are for sure other "stable" demands than for a newsreader/mailclient/whateveruncriticalapp. I'll give it a try to describe my idea of stable: - stable means promised features (http://ceph.newdream.net/about/) work reliable - no workarounds needed to use these features - (at least) in a series of stable releases (aka "1.x") i can upgrade without downtime - in a series of stable releases a can do a rolling upgrade - in a stable series there no design changes introduced - Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
