[csw-maintainers] getting people onto dublin (from: stable)

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Fri Nov 18 09:26:15 CET 2011


Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> We should really look at entirely disabling access to the old stable
> release.  I know that we're calling it legacy (stable is just a
> symlink), but there may still be sites running it...
>
> I think we should send notice to users@ and announce@ and then soon
> after drop it completely.  This doesn't get sites upgraded, but it
> will prevent any new installs from legacy and will break any future
> update attempts from sites running it now which should prompt them to
> change their mirror settings.
>
> What do others think?

I'm tempted to say "go with it" but can you give the rationale?
-- 
Peter


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