On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Dmitry Borodaenko <dborodaenko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last stable Firefly release (v0.80.5) was tagged on July 29 (over 2 > months ago). Since then, there were twice as many commits merged into > the firefly branch than there existed on the branch before v0.80.5: > > $ git log --oneline --no-merges v0.80..v0.80.5|wc -l > 122 > $ git log --oneline --no-merges v0.80.5..firefly|wc -l > 227 > > Is this a one time aberration in the process or should we expect the > gap between maintenance updates for LTS releases of Ceph to keep > growing? I didn't get a response to that nag other than the v0.80.6 release announcement on the day after, so I guess it wasn't completely ignored :) Except it turned out v0.80.6 was slightly less than useful as a maintenance release: http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-October/043701.html Two weeks later we have v0.80.7 with 3 more commits that hopefully make it actually usable. There are many ways to look at that from release management perspective. Good: 2 weeks is much better than 2 months. Bad: that's 2.5 months since last *stable* Firefly release. Ugly: that's 2 weeks for 3 commits, and now we have 54 more waiting for the next release... Wait what?! Oh right, 54 more commits were merged from firefly-next as soon as v0.80.7 was tagged: $ git log --oneline --no-merges v0.80.7..firefly|wc -l 54 Some of these are fixes for Urgent priority bugs, crashes, and data loss: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9492 http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9039 http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9582 http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/9307 etc. So what a Ceph deployer supposed to do with this? Wait another couple of weeks (hopefully) for v0.80.8? Take v0.80.7 and hope not to encounter any of these bugs? Or label Firefly as "not production ready yet" and go back to Dumpling? My personal preference obviously would be the first option, but waiting for 2.5 more months is not going to fit my schedule :( -- Dmitry Borodaenko _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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