[7763] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Pushing out printing-config now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Fri May 4 20:47:19 2012
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 17:47:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
cc: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>,
"release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
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On Fri, 4 May 2012, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>
> On May 4, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jonathon Weiss [mailto:jweiss@MIT.EDU]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 4:45 PM
>>> To: Jonathan D Reed
>>> Cc: Jonathon Weiss; release-team@mit.edu
>>> Subject: Re: Pushing out printing-config now?
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, my gut reaction would be not to push it out until after finals,
>>> but I'm willing to be overrulled, or out-voted or whatever.
>>
>> I concur; we have no compelling reason (that I know of) to push it out
>> now, and this is why we have the policy we do. We'll just have to
>> accept the extra support burden (if any?) a bit longer.
>
> There's no real support burden -- the idea was to make the community
> aware that LPRng syntax is going away. We can reschedule this awareness
> period for the fall, and then pull it completely in IAP. Or we can pull
> debathena-lprng from all metapackages this summer, and then inform users
> that they're Wrong, and that private workstation owners can install the
> package if they want it.
>
> Or we can just pull it completely this summer, and inform anyone that
> they lose. That's how real distributions do it...
Why can't we push this out as soon as finals are over / thesis deadline is
over / etc. (so as not to unnecessarily panic anyone printing study
materials or theses), and pull debathena-lprng for real in early^Wlate
July^WAugust when we do the Precise cluster release? That still gives
people two^Wthree months for the transition.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
