I'm trying to close the loop on this thread. We recognize that some users were negatively impacted by having Puppet 3.0.0 in the same repositories as the previously released versions. While we attempted to communicate our intentions to release that way by design, not everybody saw those communications.
As a result, prior to releasing the next set of software that has breaking changes, we will certainly reevaluate our distribution strategies. Completed: * The upgrade guide has been updated to mention software pinning/freezing etc: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/upgrading.html * We have filed an enhancement request to allow range pinning in puppet itself. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17102 If this is interesting to you, please watch, upvote and/or submit patches for this. Commitments: * Puppet Labs Software Delivery org will be publishing policies around our repositories * We will do more communication around breaking changes landing in our repositories, and evaluate needs to address breakage on a case-by-case basis. Comments: * We've had over 90,000 downloads of Puppet 3 from our repositories (not counting Mac, Windows, Solaris, or rubygems.org). We've had concerns voiced by less than 15 people total. I realize this doesn't mean everybody who had issues reported anything to us. The idea of separate repositories has been brought up, and debated heavily internally. We currently have over 500 package repository targets based on versions, architectures and repo-streams (devel, deps, products) etc. Branching for each major product (puppet, puppetdb, mcollective) is multiplicative and would result in many, many more each time we branch. This could easily cause confusion about which repositories to enable, disable, use for migrations from one version to the next etc. While we haven't ruled out this approach in the future, it requires quite a lot of build toolchain and automation changes. It's likely as a user you would get more value from Puppet Labs spending their efforts elsewhere. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
