[sles-beta] Antwort: Re: Old freeradius-server 2.1.1

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

Customers (me for instance) are also saying they don't want the effort of applying SPs within 6 months of them coming out. SuSE could learn a lot from the Ubuntu model which lets you have the cool features options if you really must and the stability LTS releases that don't need to be touched for 5 years (except for patches of course.)

Cheers,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-
> bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Kai Dupke
> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 7:22 PM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] Antwort: Re: Old freeradius-server 2.1.1
> 
> On 02/28/2013 09:56 AM, martin.z.ziegler at daimler.com wrote:
> > So a consistent message "SPs include cool new features" or "SPs are
> > optimized for stability and are very conservative" would be very
> helpful.
> 
> You're absolutely right, and the customers answer on what they want
> would be 'very cool features, not breaking anything but providing the
> newest stuff, in a conservative way', right?
> 
> The generic goal is to keep stuff stable, on the other side there is
> demand for the one or the other change. In such cases we have to
> balance
> between various areas: resources, benefits, impact on existing
> installation, version update or backport, enterprise readiness.
> 
> Some of this is not obvious at the first glance and might differ
> depending on the concrete scenario.
> 
> Depending on the concrete package it might be any single or all of the
> above listed.
> 
> On the other side we do the backports to support you and other
> customers. If you handle an SP like a major release then having less
> packages updated you have less packages to check dependencies on, but
> still have the option to use new features if backported.
> 
> greetings
> Kai Dupke
> Senior Product Manager
> Server Product Line
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