Perhaps I'm totally off here but is this saying 3.3.5 is under "testing" and will eventually be "stable"?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/ganglia.html If that is the case, shouldn't we work on backport it into the 3.3.x tree as opposed to 3.1.x tree? Regards, Bernard On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote: > > > On 02/08/12 21:49, Bernard Li wrote: >> Hi Daniel: >> >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> wrote: >> >>> That's not what distributions support - keep in mind, for many people, >>> they only need something basic, they are happy to run apt-get or yum and >>> get the package in 30 seconds, and that convenience is more important >>> than new features - so they are not going to dedicate 30-60 minutes to >>> downloading a tarball and working out what to do with it >> >> Well if we agree that we are EOL'ing 3.1, then it is up to the >> distributions who are still on the old version to maintain it for >> security patches. I don't think it's really our responsibility to fix >> bugs for releases that are old. We have better things to do with our >> time. > > Not quite... Kostas already did the effort for Fedora > > Someone (probably me) has to do the same for Debian > > End result: it is not some invisible person out there from the > distribution community - it comes back to us > > If we don't do it, Ganglia would be dropped from the distributions. > > Keeping a branch just means that we can avoid duplicating effort on such > things - the branch doesn't need to have every security enhancement > (e.g. the recent gid stuff), just essential web security fixes. There > is nothing else I have seen in the last 6 months that belongs on 3.1 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
