travis-ci/travis-cookbooks — Issue #34: Migrate standard VM image to Ubuntu 11.10
Author: michaelklishin
Created: 2012-02-28 02:36:52+00:00
State: open
Labels: general

Our goal is to always be one Ubuntu release behind: this way we can provide very recent software and use a release developers are already familiar with (every new release changes something, for example, GCC version, libssl version or default socket path location for databases). 11.10 in particular will let us stop provisioning some stuff (like Maven 3 and some databases) from source/tarballs.

So when 12.04 is out in April, we will move to 11.10. Right now the only blocker for that is #30. I am already doing a lot of testing (roughly half of the time I use 11.10 to develop and test cookbooks) and all new cookbooks and changes to existing cookbooks will have to be tested against both 11.04 and 11.10 starting March 1st (so this week).

FYI: @joshk @mattmatt @svenfuchs @rkh