Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian
Excerpts from Kevin Chadwick's message of 2013-08-21 08:45:27 -0700:
> My point of view is that Debian Stable should be aiming for whatever
> they believe the sweet point between stable and so usable without having
> problems is and maximising security. Aka maximising productivity and
> safety with no other concerns or compromises.
>
> Large hosting companies not having made their scripts etc. good enough
> to ride out upgrades well should have nothing to do with any decision.
>
> In fact they are best positioned man power wise to be able to set up a
> test rig and then deploy compared to small hosting companies.
>
> Does anyone even know for sure what the decision to switch was actually
> based upon?
>
IIRC, the blog post cites exactly that, too short releases.
It also doesn't hurt that OpenStack does all commit gating on Ubuntu,
thus making Ubuntu the preferred platform (RHEL/CentOS will likely join
Ubuntu in the gate someday soon). DreamHost is a player in OpenStack,
so it may be that the momentum of Ubuntu plus OpenStack is just too
great to ignore with the added pain of the 2 year upgrade treadmill.
I will ask them when I visit their offices at the next OpenStack LA
meetup. :)
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