[7060] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Agenda for 11/19 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Nov 18 16:16:04 2010
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: "release-team@MIT.EDU" <release-team@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B33E36A6-F701-4C95-81EA-2556123446A1@mit.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO8859-1"
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:15:55 -0500
Message-ID: <1290114955.9334.37.camel@dit>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:01 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> Additional items:
>
> - Realplayer (alexp)
>
> - Release schedule (jdreed): Should we revisit the idea of only targeting LTS releases for the clusters?
In case I'm late or miss the meeting: I think LTS-only releases for
clusters is a bad idea. Having only one release a year will already
leads to stale applications. Some 3partysw packages in Maverick are
already 6+ months behind the latest releases at development sites.
Towards the end of an LTS release we're likely to have many applications
as much as 3 years out of date, as things were getting when we tossed
Athena 9.4. It was painful.
A.
