I have been working for the last few months on standing up a production environment based on CloudStack, and it seems like we are constantly waiting for features or fixes in the next release. It's looking like we will need to implement (and commit) fixes, and just build custom packages in order to meet our deadlines.
My question is: as long as there aren't any major changes (database schema, etc.) is there a viable upgrade path from a release built on a branch under development to an "official" release? We'd like to deploy a cloud environment now with the necessary fixes, and upgrade to an official release in a few months once the fixes have been merged. Note that I have no problem coming up with and submitting patches for issues. I'm only finding out about these problems during deployment because most of them are flagged as "resolved" in JIRA, when they really aren't (even in master). Thank You, Logan Barfield Tranquil Hosting
