Subscription Status Update

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

@bobtskutter

Paying 48euro saves a lot of time and effort, but I’m an IT geek, so I can do all that stuff

The Crostino plan (48 EUR/yr) idea was born during the last Community Conference: a paid access to YUM repositories where it’s reasonably safe to switch on automatic updates because someone manages infrastructure and repository contents for you. IT geeks can have fun and do it by themselves

@bobtskutter

Perhaps the way to encourage people to take out subscriptions is to offer additional features in the subscription service.

As a devvelopper I don’t like this approach. The more branches, the more bugs. Also support people know it well!

There are only little differences between Community and Subscription (required by the different YUM repo configuration). Where did we hit a Bug? In those differences! SOGO (and AD LDAP clients) not working after upgrade

As a devvelopper I’d prefer a completely Open Source product, where additional services are sold apart. Less lines of code, less bugs, less test-cases, less support loads.

@bobtskutter

But please be aware that however it’s done, I suggest you have a clear statement about what happens when the subscription period is over - I’d hate for my server to get bricked after 12months!

I think that an expired subscription simply does not get updated any more. It is documented here:

http://docs.nethserver.org/en/v7/subscription.html#removing-a-subscription