Re: 7.0-BETA1

Greg Byshenk wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
rihad wrote:

How risky is it to start using 7.0-BETA1 in production, with the intention of upgrading to release as soon as possible? Thanks.
We've used 7-CURRENT since January on a couple of production boxes and had very few disasters, well, none, but a couple of issues.
"Risky" is a relative term really, but if you ask me I'd say the "risk" is rather low.
My question was more a theoretical one: it's called BETA for some reason, otherwise it'd still be in HEAD. To me BETA means that no major architectural changes are expected in it any more, no?

But: TEST FIRST!

I concur with Per. I've been running 7-CURRENT on a couple of "production"
machines for some months, without any serious problems -- but these are not
mission-critical machines.

Our machine-to-be is quite mission-critical... But if I start with the latest 6.x release, it would be more difficult to migrate to 7.0 when it comes out than if I start with 7.0-BETA?. I've known people running 4-STABLE or 5-STABLE branches on mission-critical machines, without even bothering to upgrade, but I think they're stress-testing their luck ;-) So I don't want to join their camp, that's why I asked for advice ;-) Again it's named BETA for a reason, so it could be less intrusive than STABLE?..

I will definitely start with beta if it reaches BETA2 in a week or two - the time I got ;-) Thanks for advice.

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