Citrix QA would test the upgrades on the suggested paths. > The proposed upgrade paths are CCP3.0.4, CCP3.0.5, CCP3.06, CCP3.0.7 to ACS4.2
So far it is always testing from all versions to current release. Hope with the suggestion from Hugo/Chip, this can be reduced to checkpoint releases. -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:49 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Upgrade path to ACS 4.2 from CCP On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:43:49PM +0000, Animesh Chaturvedi wrote: > > Folks > > We have an upgrade path from CCP 3.0.2 to 4.0 ACS and since then we have > diverged. I would like to propose adding upgrade path from later CCP versions > to ACS 4.2 which provides customers the choice to move to ACS from CCP and > also brings CCP closer to upstream ACS releases. > > The proposed upgrade paths are CCP3.0.4, CCP3.0.5, CCP3.06, CCP3.0.7 to > ACS4.2. Please provide your feedback. > > Thanks > Animesh > > > > Generally... +1000. I think that this is a wonderful idea. I have a couple of thoughts: We will really need to implement the "checkpoint" version concept that Hugo proposed earlier [1]. The reason that I say this, is that the source and binaries for CCP aren't available to non-customers of citrix / non-citrix devs. I obviously assume that Citrix is officially OK with this (and you are basically representing that to the list). Given that "ok", I further assume that Citrix employeed engineers would do the work (since they have access to the CCP releases). Once the upgrades are in ACS, we would want to reduce the testing effort around them going forward by ensuring that the targeted ACS release that we test the upgrades to will be one of the "checkpoint" releases per Hugo's proposal. Last thought... this doesn't seem like a 4.2 change to me. Isn't it too late to deal with testing it now? If not, and there are people ready to roll, then no worries. I'm just pointing out what may be obvious: you've hit feature freeze, and this seems like a significant amount of work. -chip [1] http://markmail.org/thread/p34jbalr25pwocez
