On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to help bring this thread to consensus. > I re-read the wiki: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Marketplace+Proposal > > The biggest issues that I believe drew concerns are: > 1-Mention of an Apache CloudStack listing repository > 2-Mention of including a listing repository in the source code. > > To keep it short, we don't want to become liable for any image that a > CloudStack user would run on its cloud. We also don't want the source code to > contain anything that would be seen as product placement from any vendors. > > That said if the wiki page was modified to remove the mention of "an apache > cloudstack listing repository" and "inclusion in source code" and geared more > towards contributing a plugin that would enable cloudstack users to link to a > third party marketplace if they so desired. Then this would be agreeable. > > I also believe this should be "disabled" by default with empty "listing > repositories". > > If this is agreeable, Jie Feng and co. could run a marketplace on their own > and Cloudstack users could link to it. I could also work with the opennebula > folks to make the plugin generic enough to tie to their marketplace. > > Thoughts ? (not too many flames, it's christmas soon :) ) > > -Sebastien >
I'm +1 to most of the above. One follow up comment that I'd like further discussion on, is the necessity of having users go to a marketplace page vs extending the VM provisioning GUI to support a more robust collection of template sources (and supporting material). > > On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:08:00PM +0000, Hugo Trippaers wrote: >>> Getting a bit late into the discussion here, but i agree with Chip here. >>> >>> I'm already uncomfortable with the idea for a marketplace inside >>> CloudStack, but providing just the features allow some external party >>> (or parties) to set something up should be ok. But neither the ASF nor >>> we as a community should maintain such a marketplace. We as a community >>> are responsible for maintaining and distributing the CloudStack source >>> code, initiatives like a market place seem better suited to a commercial >>> entity or another group that is not directly related to maintaining the >>> source code of CloudStack. >> >> +1 >> >> Best, >> >> jzb >> -- >> Joe Brockmeier >> http://dissociatedpress.net/ >> Twitter: @jzb >
