Re: NetworkManager 0.7

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:10:59AM -0700, Bill Loucks wrote:
> Regarding 0.7, I'm gradually learning more about it. I think it adds Wireless Broadband and DSL capabilities, so if you REQUIRE those capabilities, 0.7 is your choice, although 0.7 seems to be a rather early work-in-progress, so expect a rocky road for awhile.
> 
> The thing that concerns me is that the pptp plugin for 0.7 is barely recognizable from 0.6 and has several show-stoppers, depending on who you are; for me, the show-stoppers were the inability to set refuse-eap and setting the routing, so that only SOME of the traffic goes through the pptp tunnel.
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> Due to this and many other problems with NM 0.7, it seems that we have Regression Potential here, but that would be a problem for those who require 0.7 because they require some of the new features such as Wireless Broadband and DSL. I'm stumped, because it just seems that we've moved ahead to 0.7 and can't regress without hurting the people using/requiring the new features and device types in 0.7.

Substantial new developments and new major releases often come with
regressions in one or the other direction.

My personal opinion is that NM 0.7 fixes so many more previously not
supported use-cases that its a good milestone.

Anyway, I agree that there are regressions and hence we should
consider to go for a short 0.7.1 cycle where we focus on identifying
and fixing regressions instead of going for more "big" features.


 - Alexander