challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Jo Rhett]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Scott Long wrote:
> Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you?

gmirror failures, 3ware raid driver timeouts, bge0 problems.  All  
three in production use on dozens of systems.

>> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and  
>> money for any business to handle this ugprade.  It totally  
>> understand obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out.  But 6.2 is barely a  
>> year old...
>
> The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch  
> will have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk.


That's my expectation as well.  The 6.3 degression has been somewhat  
surprising.

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Jo Rhett
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