[cdwg] [wc-discuss] Lustre 2.2.0 released

[Christopher J. Morrone]

On 06/18/2012 10:44 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2012-06-18, at 10:19 AM, Christopher J. Morrone wrote:

>> But if we don't have a clear plan for which releases with be LTS and advertise that AHEAD of time, we'll never sync up on releases, and our limited resources will continue to be divided.  Vendors and large sites just can't turn on a dime.  We need clear guidance well in advance of a maintenance/LTS release if we are going to plan to move to it in a reasonable time frame.
>
> I agree, but we can't make that decision in isolation.  I agree that advance discussion and notification is important, but there has to be buy-in from the users about this.

Sure, and that is why I've been raising this on OpenSFS calls, at the 
OpenSFS meeting after LUG, and here on mailing lists.  Hopefully we will 
hear from more members of the community and come to some general agreement.

> I'm not totally against someone using e.g. 2.2, since it does provide valuable production feedback for the changes from 2.1 to 2.2, but I think this needs to be done with the understanding that the "maintenance" stream for 2.2 will be 2.3 and then 2.4, and finally 2.4.1, 2.4.2 (assuming that is the next maintenance release).

Absolutely.

Chris