Gary Law <gary...@garylaw.net> writes: > On 24 November 2010 23:50, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but here's a dedicated one. >> >> We made a big change between 0.24.x and 0.25.x where we moved from >> XMLRPC to REST. >> >> How do people feel about us dropping all XMLRPC support from 2.7.x, >> such that it only supported Puppet clients 0.25.x and higher? > > That depends on the support model (for bug fixes) puppetlabs is prepared to > support. I'd be inclined to support all recent client releases under a year > old at a minimum. Longer for the real enterprisey conservative shops. > Remember, a fair few places in the UK are still-running-IE-6 shops.
One of the bits of feedback I have had from various folks out in the wider world is that (right or wrong) they already feel that Puppet has a pretty fast upgrade cycle and a very poor backward compatibility story. > My firm would be happy for a six month release/patch cycle, but we're not > change averse. Others firms I've worked for are. *nod* I think that the Debian maintainers would be less than thrilled at support for the versions in Debian/stable being dropped totally, and users of Debian would be unthrilled with needing something out of backports to talk to their newer Puppet server. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.