Re: Heroku early upgrade is raising serious questions

Le 09/04/2013 10:21, Dave Page a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 04/08/2013 05:50 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
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>>>> Agreed. As far as I can see things where handled in the Postgres way,
>>>> when in doubt err on the side of caution. I applaud the efforts of those
>>>> concerned and trust in their ability to build on the experience.
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>>> Mostly I'd rather be arguing as to whether or not we should have given
>>> Heroku early deployment
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>> No.
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>> That isn't to say I didn't understand that theory of doing so. I do.
>> However, you essentially created a class of user that is above other users
>> and that is explicitly not Open Source.
>
> I'm not arguing either way here... but if you think of DBaaS as "the
> new packaging", it starts to seem more reasonable to give folks like
> Heroku access at the same time as the traditional packagers.
>

Just to make things clear : my previous message is not about wether or
nor a DBaaS provider should have early access to security releases (even
if that's a good question).

My message is about wether or not a DBaaS provider should be allowed to
deploy the security release days before the official release date.