Interim plan to move away from the mongo tarball

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Mark Ramm
<mark.ramm-christensen at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 03/27/2013 05:50 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Mark Ramm
>> <mark.ramm-christensen at canonical.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I did read it.  I take it that you are now referring to the "
>>> bootstrapping
>>> only happens on the specific series that the respective juju in use was
>>> deployed on" I'm sorry if I was confused about that -- I did read the
>>
>> I'm not "now" referring to it. I've proposed that 10h ago, 7h before
>> you sent a message dismissing the whole conversation as "we don't have
>> time" and ignoring that proposal.
>>
>>> thread, and was interested in discussion on locking down the bootstrap
>>> node
>>> to the "current" series, but thought that perhaps you were still also
>>> arguing for the tarball solution -- particularly since you said in the
>>> e-mail I replied to "if you can't spare the time to build a tarball with
>>> binaries, nothing else will do."
>>
>> The entire paragraph is "If you're in such a hurry, you can DO NOTHING
>> rather than half-baking a solution that has seen little discussion and
>> has known real problems being ignored. WHAT EXISTS TODAY isn't
>> perfect but works, and if you can't spare the time to build a tarball
>> with binaries, nothing else will do."
>>
>>
>> gustavo @http://niemeyer.net
>
> I don't know what else to say other than to reiterate that I'm sorry that I
> misunderstood you.
>
> I didn't understand that the e-mail you sent to James constituted a change
> of direction from you and a new "proposal," and thought it was merely an
> exploration of possible options.

Exploring possible options is how we drive towards good models while
considering everyone's opinions.

> I think it was a reasonable mistake, but it was a mistake, and it was my
> mistake and I apologize for it.

Apologies accepted. I'd like to try to find ways of talking about
ideas without always sounding like a threat to your schedule. You may
well end up doing less as a result of these conversations.


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net