Re: Heroku early upgrade is raising serious questions

On 04/09/2013 01:38 AM, damien clochard wrote:

>>> No.
>>>
>>> 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.
>

Right. Which I don't think they should be able to.

Joshua D. Drake

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