This all sounds good to me. What would be the difference between the src.tar.gz and the jar one?
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote: > All, > > This is another issue that we need to come to a consensus on (and I > think we can do lazy consensus if required here) prior to 4.0 being > released. > > We've variously been discussing how to best provide binary artifacts > from the 4.0 release. Knowing that we are purely discussing > convenience builds for users, and that ASF releases are source only, > I'd like to propose the following approach. > > I propose that the project only publishes source tarballs to the ASF > mirrors, and that we rely on the community at large to publish binary > build artifacts. > > Wido has volunteered to host deb and rpm repos containing packages > built from the source, and I know that (over time) we will see the > actual distributions put cloudstack packages together. I would > imagine (and am not speaking for Wido), that we could work with Wido > to ensure that his hosted repos have the latest release in them. We > would then be in a position where it's OK if a specific distro > packaging community is a version or two behind the ASF releases. That > scenario would allow us to point users that want the very latest > release to the custom repo, but folks that want official distro > packages can simply use the version being provided by their OS's > packaging system. > > For the convenience of the community, I'd further propose that we > provide a set of links to these community repos on our download page > (including appropriate verbiage about the URLs not representing > official ASF release artifacts). This would also include instructions > for how to setup a RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu system to pull from Wido's > hosted repos. > > As for QA teams involved in the testing of ASF releases, I believe > that we should continue to use jenkins.c.o (with Citrix's agreement > and continued support) as the source for downloading packages for > testing. This is because it can do it for us on a nightly schedule. > > There is one optional part of this proposal: we include a tarball of > cloudstack jar files on the ASF mirrors. Although, I'm just not sure > what value that provides to the community. > > Thoughts? > > -chip > -- NS
