I also support the concept of Service Packs. Using our friend Microsoft as an example, they roll a large quantity of patches (hot fixes) into a Service Pack that has been vendor validated to work together and has a pretested installation sequence builtin.
Please consider the idea of Service Packs using one of the following criteria:
- We've not produced a hot fix for 3 months. Lets roll all the fixes together into a SP
- By policy, we release service packs every 6 months.
Either criteria would make Orion administrators lives easier when patching and/or justifying patching to management.
Chris