Hotspot Express (HSX)

[Volker Simonis]

Ron Pressler <ron.pressler at oracle.com> schrieb am Fr., 21. Feb. 2020, 22:30:

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> Major releases took a year to stabilize. The last major release was 9. It
> was
> released over two years ago. It's stabilized. Feature releases (or "limited
> updates," as they were called back then) never took a year to stabilize.
>

No it's not, because nobody seriously used it, because it was clear from
the beginning that it would only be supported for 6 month.

That's exactly the point why nobody seriously considers non-LTS releases
for production. And the reason why intermediat, overlapping MTS (Medium
Term Support) releases have been proposed to solve the problem.

11 is LTS, it's more than a year old and it's the first release since 8
which really gains some serious adoption. But the gap from 8 to 11 is
obviously quite big. Considering all the features currently under
development, the gap between 11 and 17, the next LTS, might be even bigger.


> And I think it matters a great deal whether some argument is true or not.
> We're not bystanders. If it's is right, then it shouldn't be and we should
> focus on fixing that. If it's not, then it is our responsibility to help
> people overcome the temporary confusion caused by the change to how we
> name
> versions and the elimination of major releases, rather than entrench that
> confusion.
>
> - Ron
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> On 2/19/20, 23:58 PM, "Hohensee, Paul" wrote:
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>  > Re JSX lack of adoption, the argument is that it's always taken at least
>  a year to stabilize a new release, and with 6 months between releases
>  none of the non-LTS releases will ever be stable. Doesn't matter whether
>  that's true or not, it's what people believe based on previous
>  experience with 8 and 11. The relatively large degree of incompatibility
>  between 8 and 11 is another hurdle. People remember that and don't want
>  to worry about language and library backward compatibility every 6
>  months, no matter how small those incompatibilities are. Doing a lot of
>  backports is a response to that customer demand. Hotspot is "under the
>  covers", so to speak, so HSX was easier to sell than is JSX.
>
>  > Paul
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