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stable or development?


humans of the abraum, i have a question for you: the initial few weeks i was running the development branch of friendica with little issues. now that we are gathering a small crowd here, i switched to stable at the current release. this puts us 1-3 months behind current developments. what is your opinion about running dev vs. stable? do you/we want to keep it stable, or do we want to accept stuff possibly breaking from time to time in exchange for pulling latest developments faster? or maybe run a second playground instance?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

I'd say, depends on how much the intermediate updates really change the game in terms of features. What's new really?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

it is a moving target at the moment. support for (mastodon)mobile clients arrived just a month ago.
also, of the 128 systems our node knows about right now, the distribution is roughly like this:
2021.01 (25)
2021.04 (19)
2021.06-dev (3)
2021.07 (51)
2021.09-dev (18)
in reply to felix b. ohmann

I'm a BLEEDING EDGE ALL THE WAY kinda guy. Just keep backups of the user db etc in case things go up in flames I guess?
in reply to felix b. ohmann

I don't care about downtime but don't make hosting unnötig nervig for yourself.