Re: Distro packaging decisions and the non-public Enterprise source

Hi Jeremy, all !

Jeremy Cole wrote:
> Hi Jörg,
>
> I certainly will not disagree that an issue this basic should have been
> caught in internal QA, but at the same time, can you argue that having a
> community release out would have caught this issue before you gave the
> untested code to your supposedly "more stable" enterprise customers?

No, I cannot argue that, and I never tried to.

But IMO there is no significant difference between giving a version with such an issue to any user, be s/he paying or not - it should not meet the paying customer, but equally it should not meet the non-paying community user.

>
> The basic issue is that you're asking customers to pay for the privilege
> of using untested code in production. I for one could never recommend
> that to a customer...

If "you" means me personally, I will ignore that: I never said this is my personal preference.

If "you" refers to MySQL AB, this is a way to put it which I cannot claim to be completely wrong, even though I am sure this is not the intention of the current scheme of operation.

A salesperson must always work by the assumption the product is operating correct, and from that point it is ok to give paying users a headstart with a new version.
A technical person may easily start from a different assumption and so come to different proposals.

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(I belong to the technical side, but try to understand the other point of view; so I may present arguments even though I do not share them.)

Regards,
Jörg

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