Juju 1.17.0 on trusty means no production work

[Daniel Westervelt]

James/Scott/Pat? Long term goal is to sync with whatever is latest stable before release, no?

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> On Jan 23, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Curtis Hovey-Canonical <curtis at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> I am dismayed to see that juju 1.17.0 was put into trusty. We know it
> is not backward compatible. Since the juju stable PPA only contains
> backports from trusty, there is no juju stable package for me to
> install through an archive.
> 
> A sad day for me to respond to a production-level issue with
> production/stable jujus.
> 
> I am happy to run trusty and test the new packaging of stable
> software. Juju 1.17.0 is not stable, it is not compatible with 1.16.x,
> and was not given a choice, nor informed that I could be risking
> someone's assets. I don't think ubuntu devel series should be getting
> devel juju, at least not until we have full devel to stable
> compatibility testing.
> 
> If we put juju into trusty because everyone on trusty myst test juju,
> then we need to offer out testers an obvious and safe path to remain
> stable, I don't think pinning juju packages is obvious or right
> because I do want stable packages. We can offer stable and unstable
> versions in trusty.
> 
> For the time being, I am going to create a stable trusty juju and
> place it in the stable ppa so that some people have a choice to
> respond to production situations.
> 
> -- 
> Curtis Hovey
> Canonical Cloud Development and Operations
> http://launchpad.net/~sinzui
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