On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:20:02AM +0000, Cian Brennan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:14:20AM +0000, Andrew Harford wrote:
Hi,
I think that after the big storage migration we should move the stuff on fast-storage to worf (faster-storage, if you like ;) ).
Once this is done there should be nothing at all left running on carbon, we can do a clean install to get rid of anything left over from the various things what ran there.
There's two reasons for this:
* If carbon is to stay as a 'development machine' then people are going want the newest development tools and libaries. Hardy isn't getting any younger. Unless carbon has software that we can't or won't run on the hardy boxes it doesn't make much sense to develop anything there.
* Eventually we will probably have to upgrade everything to lucid. Given that there will be no more features released on hardy I think it's unlikely that 'the admins of the future' will be happy to wait until 12.04 is stable to move away from hardy, so we may as well get an enviroment where we can test it out properly for a while.
I second this excellent recommendation, but advise that it be sent to admin-discuss.
Having looked more into this, lucid is not ready yet, but I think we should move to karmic, and keep carbon on the most recent ubuntu indefinatly. This is def a tradeoff in terms of stability and availablity but I think it makes sense in this case. a. -- Andrew Harford You do not just avoid the Suzuki Wagon R. You avoid it like you would avoid unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite. --Jeremy Clarkson