[Planetlab-devel] serious issue in build 26-06

[Mark Huang]

Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> I am going to stop testing until you tell me you 
> have another working build for me as things seam to break on a daily bases.

Today's (2006.07.03) build apparently works; please try it out. If everyone 
thinks it's stable enough, I'll go ahead and branch myplc now.

"Things seem to break on a daily basis" is neither news nor helpful commentary, 
especially when we're nearing the end of our current targeted push toward 
stability. Breakage is to be expected. Consider that until now, figuring out 
that something was broken took days. Now it takes minutes. Presumably this is 
progress.

Yes, a new feature got checked into the Node Manager code base that caused MyPLC 
to stop functioning correctly. No, they were not useless changes made solely to 
frustrate you or me. I felt that I needed to take a couple of days to understand 
the changes before fixing MyPLC. I'm sorry if that caused you aggravation.

I have basically disabled the new functionality, but left room for enabling it 
in the future. This was the reason for the temporary failure in certificate 
verification that Thierry mentioned. Once we branch, supporting upgrades and 
minimizing these kinds of regressions, will of course be of primary concern.

--Mark
PlanetLab Operations