SchoolTool not suitable for Production?

[Michael Paric]

> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Michael Paric
> <mparic at compbizsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>> I appreciate the detailed response and apologize for my
>> frustration-driven rant. When it's fuzzy for the community to get a
clear
>> understanding of who is involved with what, it's especially difficult
to
>> explain to potential school deployments. I understand and agree with
the
>> concept of keeping the LTS as stable as possible but are you
anticipating
>> that many drastic changes to SchoolTool every six months?
> 
> Generally the April release is the major one for the year.
> 
>> Even for those who want to upgrade the OS every release, that's quite a
>> bit of additional training for users and support team. I guess it's one
>> thing to say "we will only support the new features on the new OS
>> releases so you're on your own if you want to run them on the LTS" and
>> another for the website to say "you *must* upgrade in order to get the
>> new version". Either way, much thanks to you and your team for the
>> incredible amount of work to get this far.
> 
> I would say our strategy is optimized for deploying SchoolTool by
> itself on a real or virtual server (both options are relatively
> inexpensive now), assuming that people will pick and choose which
> upgrades to apply based on their own needs and schedule.  It fits
> somewhat less well in your case where you want a bunch of services
> running on one server instance.
> 
> Incidentally, Critical Links use Linux from Scratch and create their
> own packages from source so they have complete control on their
> appliance.  That's more expensive for them obviously.
> 
> --Tom

Thanks again; much of this is in response to the Edubuntu group looking
for a simple "server in a box" however I agree that not everything can or
should be on the same physical server (I wouldn't include SchoolTool on my
LDAP server, but would install it on the same server that has Moodle, for
instance, as a machine capable of running several virtual machines could
also run SchoolTool in addition to another web-based application). This has
been a big help and appreciate your time. 

Michael