[katello-devel] Bumping up the Rails version 3.0.10 -> 3.0.15

[Chris Alfonso]

On 19/07/12 11:58 +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>> Maybe I missed this in the thread, but what exactly is required from
>> 3.0.15 that is not satisfied by 3.0.10 + CVE patches?
>>
>> We certainly can go through the exercise to update everything, but it
>> will be a moderately involved effort.  A concrete justification would be
>> good before we dive into that hole.
>
>I totally share your opinion here. Why would we want to upgrade? If it
>works, don't touch it. No, seriously in this case (3.0.10 vs 3.0.15)
>there is no added value. We should use the version which is in the
>oldest supported Fedora version - which is no Fedora 16. Since it is
>still supported, we get security fixes "for free".
>
>I don't get this "ruby race" of having the latest and greatest versions.
>This is what geeks don't do :-)
>
>My recommendation:
>
>1) Let's make cross-teams deal we will try to stick with latest Fedora
>version stack. Only if it's absolutely needed, let's upgrade, but I
>don't see any reason for that. Today it's Fedora 16 rails version, next
>upgrade would be to Fedora 17 stack.
>
>2) Let's not rush with incorporating latest and greatest features.
>Sometimes they has very cool things, but let us be realistic. About 10
>new features, 20 bug fixes and 20 new bugs are introduced every release.
>We need to deal with all of them.
>
>3) For now I would recommend to downgrade Foreman. It's not big deal
>since we already have Fedora 16 rails builds, it's a matter of testing
>it out if it works.
>
+1
>4) Maybe it's a good time to start discussion about using our shared
>koji instance. Currently we have koji instance which builds Katello
>only. There is plenty of possibilities how to re-use it for building
>Aeolus, Candlepin, Pulp and Foreman.
>
>-- 
>Later,
>
> Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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>
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