[Info-vax] Quiet?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/2/2022 10:32 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 4/1/2022 1:50 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2022-04-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>> Of course they could also wait just a few months and go for
>>>> VMS x86-64 in a VM under ESXi. But given that it is on Alpha
>>>> not Itanium then that may not be the plan.
>>>
>>> Isn't that timetable just a little optimistic Arne ? :-)
>>
>> Maybe.
>>
>>> I doubt that anyone will be running live production payloads on
>>> the production-level version of x86-64 VMS until a good year or
>>> so after it is released.
>>
>> They could start test with 9.1 now.
> 
> You should be doing the tests against the actual version you are
> thinking of putting into production and 9.1 doesn't even have native
> compilers yet. :-)

If it works on 9.1 then they should not need a year to test 9.1 to 9.2.
So get started.

>> I know the "let us wait to put it in production until 12 months
>> after release" mantra. But there is this little problem that
>> if everybody follows that then it will not have been used in
>> production after 12 month.
> 
> My choice of wording was precise when I talked about live production
> payloads. :-)
> 
> There's nothing to stop them testing the production version for
> a year or so, until users trust it enough to start using it in
> production.

Testing a year seems excessive and possible pointless as VSI
will undoubtedly release lots of patches during that year.

Arne