[CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

Fri Aug 27 19:58:24 UTC 2010
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

>> At any rate I stand by my position that in tech if you are going to
>> put an opinion piece out on a mailing list, a blog or another medium
>> it should be relevant to the current situation and not something you
>> tried a year ago and didn't work out great so you advise others to
>> steer clear a year later without checking to see what progress, if
>> any, has been made in that area.
>
> Agreed, but a large part of that opinion and one of the most helpful
> pieces of information for others relates to how stable a project is over
> a long period of time.  Of course it is hard to predict the future, but
> the past is often a good indicator.  If we weren't all interested in
> stability, we probably wouldn't be subscribed to this particular mail list.
>

Agreed - and given the OP has got the info he wanted (and more no
doubt!) I think we should let it rest on that good point...

James