When will 5.1 become production use?

anyone can tell?

thanks

"howa" <howachen@gmail.com> wrote:
> anyone can tell?

When it is ready. Read: when all known serious bugs are fixed.
If you need some sort of progress meter: go to http://bugs.mysql.com/
and look for open bugs in 5.1.

Currently 5.1 is BETA. Next version will be RC-1 (hopefully).
The version after RC-1 will be GA.

But even then you may want to wait. Experience showed, that some bugs
are well hidden and will be found only after a lot of users have
upgraded to the new version. Sorry for that!

If you want to help us to release 5.1 soon - go use it and report any
bugs you find! ;-)


XL
--
Axel Schwenke, Senior Software Developer, MySQL AB

Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/

Axel Schwenke ¼g¹D¡G

> "howa" <howachen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > anyone can tell?
>
> When it is ready. Read: when all known serious bugs are fixed.
> If you need some sort of progress meter: go to http://bugs.mysql.com/
> and look for open bugs in 5.1.
>
> Currently 5.1 is BETA. Next version will be RC-1 (hopefully).
> The version after RC-1 will be GA.
>
> But even then you may want to wait. Experience showed, that some bugs
> are well hidden and will be found only after a lot of users have
> upgraded to the new version. Sorry for that!
>
> If you want to help us to release 5.1 soon - go use it and report any
> bugs you find! ;-)
>
>
> XL
> --
> Axel Schwenke, Senior Software Developer, MySQL AB
>
> Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
> MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/

i want to know, in MySQL term, what is the meaning of production then?

since from the http://bugs.mysql.com/, even 4.1, many serious bugs are
outstanding...

"howa" <howachen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Axel Schwenke
>> "howa" <howachen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > anyone can tell?
>>
>> When it is ready. Read: when all known serious bugs are fixed.

> i want to know, in MySQL term, what is the meaning of production then?
> since from the http://bugs.mysql.com/, even 4.1, many serious bugs are
> outstanding...

Possible. But those bugs have been found *after* 4.1 went GA.


XL
--
Axel Schwenke, Senior Software Developer, MySQL AB

Online User Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/
MySQL User Forums: http://forums.mysql.com/

howa wrote:
> i want to know, in MySQL term, what is the meaning of production then?
>
> since from the http://bugs.mysql.com/, even 4.1, many serious bugs are
> outstanding...

MySQL 4.1 was released as a production version 2004-10-23 according to
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/news.html

A search for open S2 and S1 bugs at bugs.mysql.com shows that all
currently open serious and critical bugs against MySQL 4.1 were reported
after its production release. So it's possible that all S2 and S1 bugs
were resolved at the time the production release of MySQL 4.1 was made.

The earliest open Serious Bug, #6298, was reported 2004-10-28 (and that
bug is really only a documentation fix request).

The earliest open Critical Bug, #10348, was reported 2005-05-03.

I assume that once software is released as "production", it is never
reclassified as "beta" even if serious or critical bugs are found to
affect the production release. This is customary for all software, not
just MySQL.

Regards,
Bill K.