[sles-beta] [Sleha-beta] Opinion: It's too soon to leave beta and go to RC level

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Evening,
          I have not run any of our applications on SLES12 yet. I can not get even a simple SLE11-SP3 to Update / Upgrade to SLES12 and until a clean update works, until the new Gnome Display Manager works, until what ever will replace the CRON functions work, until what ever is eating CPU in the Gnome Shell etc etc etc
          Maybe we are odd balls, we don’t use New Installs, we Upgrade and will continue to do so. I’m away from the Beta for a couple of weeks; I’d like to come back to Beta10 that can do the basic functions running on a VMware Workstation, with a Display Manager that works, VMware Tools that work and then maybe we can start to check applications. As we were 99% KDE I think we will have a lot of work to do once we have a stable working enviroment, but you can not start if you can not update working SLE11-SP3 environments without having to throw the bones on the table to see what to try next. If you think x86_64 is an issue try zLinux where we have very interesting issues, but that is for another day.

          Back in a couple of weeks, and that would also be a good reason to keep on Beta. It’s the start of the holiday season in Europe and even if I’m there, the person you need to do “xyz” is with the family by the sea.

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From: sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sleha-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Tom Parker
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 11:06 PM
To: Darren Thompson; sles-beta at lists.suse.com; SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Authorized Beta Program
Subject: Re: [Sleha-beta] Opinion: It's too soon to leave beta and go to RC level

We use iSCSI boot for our servers and since that doesn't work and the cciss driver is gone so I can't install locally on my test cluster, we are also behind in our HA and application testing.

Tom
On 25/06/14 05:02 PM, Darren Thompson wrote:
Team

The next release of SLES12 is meant to be the first RC.

Personally I think it's still too early to go to an RC (Yes I know that they have already extended the Beta cycle once).

For me personally, I am still focused on Install/setup issues (and still finding serious bugs there)
- Autoyast
- Booting
- ISCSI (particularly the new target service).

I have not yet begun testing migration sceneries or done any sociability/stability testing of at the application level.

I am EXPECTING to find serious bugs in the migration from SLES11 => SLES12 area in ISCSI, XEN and HA.

I also would like to spend more time on BTRFS/SAMBA integration and SAMBA active/active HA on OCFS2.

Is just that I'm a laggard or are other finding that SLES12 is still not ready for testing furter up the application stack yet?

Regards
Darren

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