Dne St 4. ledna 2012 08:09:31, Michael Stahnke napsal(a):
planning is a nice thing, but ... what if you are stuck with some hardware that works with the old software only, for example?
Well the hardware that won't run something newer is probably approaching 10 years old at this point. It's probably time for an upgrade, or virtualization.
LOL, I got a bit amused trying to imagine how are you virtualizing a large scale CNC machine ... :-)
well, I have no clue what are the real usages of RHEL4+EPEL
but I just don't like the attitude
it has bitten me just a few weeks ago - why should I buy a new printer when the twelve years old one is in perfect shape, it provides a good quality, and the price per page ratio is the lowest in its class?
I'd rather pay the price of the new printer to someone to fix the driver to work with new kernel than to throw away the old one, trashing the Earth with another piece of waste
And when I worked in big enterprise, I needed all the help I could get to be able to move systems. :)
was it big enough to create its own software support team (I do not mean helpdesk but real developers) because it was way cheaper than to adapt to vendor's lifecycles?
Yes it was large enough, but that wasn't a good option. Moving on a planned schedule, though difficult is often the cheapest and best solution.
now you say "is often" - and what about the rest of cases (e.g. my experience is different, or the managers in my previous company just couldn't do the math ...)?
will supporting them negatively affect the majority? - I don't think so
will supporting them cost us more than it would cost them if we dropped the support? - don't know ... but as we are talking about moving things to archive, i.e. eating the same disk space, just under another directory, I doubt our costs would be significant in comparison
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and if we do not drop EPEL4, what forces you to support the module?
When you put something into EPEL, you are more-or-less agreeing to attempt to support it throughout the life of the operating systems EPEL is tracking. If we stop tracking EPEL4, people who have been trying to keep compatibility with E4, and back port fixes, etc will get a significant amount of time (in some cases) back.
this does not answer my question
okay, you "agreed to attempt" - now what?
- I thought we are talking about volunteer project ...
It is. It's also primarily in use by business customers this is why planning and communication is key.
so, wouldn't it be better to communicate with these customers and present some resume rather then push everyone's selfish agenda on this list?
K.