-----Original Message----- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:20 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [ASF40][DISCUSS] Split AWS API / CloudBridge into a separate project
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I started a innocent thread on the -dev list yesterday[0] about some > packaging remarks regarding the AWS API aka CloudBridge. > > This turned out to be a rather large thread where Edison mentioned[1] > we might want to split this out into a separate repository. > > Some time ago we agreed that we don't want to split CloudStack up into > multiple smaller projects since it would be very hard to keep all the > projects in sync. > > I'm now looking at packaging AWS API into Deb files as by CS-294[2], > but I'm thinking about Edison's remark. > > I know this question might come at a awkward moment, just prior to the > 4.0 release, but when I create a cloud-awsapi Debian package people > will start using it and we'll be dealing with the legacy at a later point. > > If we create a "cloudbridge" package separate from the cloud-* > packages we can move forward from there. > > At the old Github account[3] there is even a separate CloudBridge > repository, this got merged into master on May 25th of this year with > commit > bc7dbd7d9681dc2729326ff78fb5fe586b336b25 > > Since 4.0 is not out of the door yet, do we want to keep this in the > cloudstack repository or split it out (again)? > > I've seen numerous build failures with awsapi breaking master while > it's not actually a part of the code base, so in this case I'm in > favor of breaking it out, but we should discuss this. > > Note: We already have a LOT of e-mail on this list, so can we try to > stick ontopic here and keep it to the point? Tnx! > > Wido -1 to breaking it out for 4.0 We are in code freeze at this point - the code present is what we need to deal with. [Rajesh Battala] -1 for breaking it out from 4.0 release. It's really important and value added to ASF CS 4.0 Thanks Rajesh Battala
