On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Kaleb Keithley wrote:
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> If Octopus is really an LTS release like all the others, and you want
> bleeding edge users to test/use it and give early feedback, then Fedora is
> probably one of the better places to get that feedback.
I think the first release worth testing outside of the dev community is
the release candidate. I don't like the idea of having any distro carry
an untested dev checkpoint or else someone will lose data... even the rc
should be tested cautiously and, since it is only relevant for a week or
two, I'm not sure that distros can play much of a role there?
To be clear, when I talk about packaging a new version Ceph, it starts out by _only_ going into Fedora Rawhide. It would be extremely foolish, IMO, for anyone to run Rawhide for anything that's mission critical.
Sometimes it takes a long time to work through build and packaging issues. The switch to gcc-8 and gcc-9 are good illustrations of the kinds of issues that we, as packagers, run into. Those kinds of things are why I — at least — like to get as early a start as I can. Even short-lived release candidates are useful stepping stones to the eventual GA.
Personally I'd say that any fears anyone has of people losing data by using an early dev checkpoint of Ceph on Rawhide are probably a teeny bit misplaced.
My 2.5¢ worth.
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Kaleb