On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 07-Nov-2012, at 4:50 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > >> Rohit: >> >> I saw the below commit, and then this: >> >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudmonkey/0.0.4 >> >> Is this a release of a portion of the CloudStack codebase? (This >> wasn't in the 4.0.0-incubating release was it?) >> Did I miss a discussion of the publication on list somewhere? > > I released it on pypi (cheese shop) without asking anyone. I did that so a > user can simply get the cli using pip or easy_install. > > Do I need to go through some process to release the cli on pypi, think like > maven snapshots? > I'm sorry if I did anything wrong, I'm unsure and don't know the release > process for distributing client snapshots or python libs such as marvin which > are within the source code. Starting 4.1.0 we can distribute cli etc. along > with the release. > > Regards.
First, let me say that I love the CLI, and am really happy to see it under development. Though now that I look at this closely, I think there might be a couple of issues to discuss here. This is IMO, so others should chime in. In reality, we're using the very permissive ASLv2 license for the project, and technically, on pypi, you've not identified the package as an official CloudStack project. You could consider that listing on Pypi as the "Rohit distro" of the tool. Also, you retain the copyright to your work and just grant a liberal license to the ASF. INAL, but AFAIK you did nothing *legally* wrong. Here's the part where I think we can work together to improve things: Obviously, Apache has not *released* any code that includes the cloudmonkey CLI tool yet, so that's one concern for us to consider. Second, what I've seen other projects do with package distro sites like this is to tie the updates / changes to the release process. For example, Deltacloud uploads their gems after voting and releasing the source. Should we consider operating in that way? Should we further consider posting to Pypi with The Apache Software Foundation as the listed author? > >> >> --David >> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:40 AM, <bhais...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Updated Branches: >>> refs/heads/master a94f6f19b -> b71386530 >>> >>> >>> cli: pip install cloudmonkey works >>> >>> Patch makes cloudmonkey installable and redistributable using source dist >>> from >>> pypi under apache compliant license. Most visible issues have been solved >>> and >>> cloudmonkey should work well with CloudStack 4.0 and master, also until >>> APIs do >>> not change. >>> > >
