[Info-vax] Quiet?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/4/2022 1:38 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 4/2/2022 10:32 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> When you are talking about systems that allow your business to
> function, it's not something you decide to do within a couple of months.

If you can't test it in a couple of months then you are toast.

You have a system. There are coming in updates to your application,
there are coming in updates to third party software, there are coming
in VMS updates from VSI.

If you test a year then what was tested at the beginning of the year
is not what is going live.

You don't want to when after 8 months there come a fix to a critical
security bug to say "we will not take that fix".

> How long do you consider it acceptable to wait before you consider the
> production version of VMS ready to use in a live production environment ?

Do a thorough test on 9.1 and then a final test on 9.2. There is no
magic in waiting N months. And unless ones workload is very standard
(which it is not on VMS) then other customers test may not be relevant.

Arne