[1981] in NetBSD-Development
Re: time to desupport?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Oct 26 03:23:09 2000
Message-Id: <200010260723.DAA00984@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:53:17 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:23:02 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I'd feel uncomfortable with announcing a desupport date before the
>> IS-Linux-Athena SIPB installer is cleaned up and out of beta.
It's my impression that there isn't that much remaining to keep us
from declaring our installer to be production, but I agree that this
needs to happen before we can announce a desupport date.
>> It would be even better if we had an actual upgrade from SIPB athena to
>> IS Athena, but I don;t know how possible that will be. I've thought
>> about playing with it, bt never gotten around to it. If anyone else
>> wants to poke at this I'll be happy to give you a braindump on what I've
>> been thinking. OTOH, I don't think having this upgrade is a requirement
>> fro desupporting the old stuff by any means.
I agree this would be neat, but we've not historically ever provided
an upgrade path between versions for our users. This is lame, but now
probably isn't the time to start.
>> Based on Marc's comment I'd also suggest pushing the desupport date
>> at least to the end of IAP.
Pushing to the end of IAP is fine with me; we might want to couple
this with an installing Linux-Athena class offered during IAP for people
who need to upgrade their existing installations. I know Camilla had
talked about this with me at some point. Camilla, can you comment?
I'd hesitate to push beyond the end of IAP, however, because even if we
continue to put a little sticker on the software that says "supported",
the truth is that it's not getting any less crufty, and I don't see this
trend reversing.
Garry
