[BlueOnyx:15824] Re: BlueOnyx 5207R/5208R released

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Chris,

> 1: BlueOnyx announces the official release of 5207/8R, which replaces 
> 5107/8R.
>
> 2: With the new release in official production, 5107/8R will be phased 
> out.   No maintenance will occur on the old GUI after ________.  I 
> suggest that date to be December 31, 2014.
>
> 3: A yum update is pushed to 5107/8R boxes that adds a pop-up or a 
> replacement of the news page (effective now!) that gives the alert and 
> the option to UPDATE NOW or IGNORE.
>
> 4: UPDATE NOW option executes script to yum update to 5207/8R, while 
> IGNORE simply does nothing.
>
> 5: For those who ignore and do not upgrade, they continue to see the 
> announcement upon login until January 1, 2015.   At that time, the 
> announcement changes to mention that they are now operating on an 
> obsolete version of BlueOnyx.  We encourage an upgrade now, because it's 
> fantastic and wonderful and, oh yes, official support for their version 
> has ended.   Would you like to upgrade now?  It's free.  The water's 
> fine, come on in.   They can still ignore, but we're making them well 
> aware of the consequences.
> 
> While that extends your heavy lifting for another 3 months, I feel it is 
> a more graceful and, may I say, professional approach.

Yeah, with the feedback so far I think this is the best approach, Chris.
So let us do that.

This gives those who want more time for the upgrade enough time to
prepare and those who want to upgrade sooner can do so at their own pace
with a bit more ease.

Then on January 1st I'll push the update to YUM one way or the other.

I agree that this is perhaps the best solution.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber