On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > On 01/10/2013 03:07 PM, Chip Childers wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Since packaging is a theme yet again (and we seem to be headed in a >> direction that is useful for a distro packager), I wanted to raise the >> idea of trying to work with various Linux distros to get CloudStack >> into their official package repos. I see the 4.1.0 release as being >> the ideal release >> >> I know that we have had various packagers represented on this list on >> and off, and I suspect that there are quite a few lurkers hanging >> around. >> >> My question to the community is: does it make sense for the Apache >> CloudStack community to reach out to various linux disto communities >> and see if they would be willing to include the software (as well as >> offer packaging help if needed)? >> >> My questions to folks that might be on this list representing >> different distros: Are you interested? If so, how can we work with >> your community most effectively? Last, CloudStack is obviously still >> a podling (and our release numbers still reflect "-incubating"). Is >> our graduation a prerequisite in your opinion? >> >> Thanks! >> > > I'm honestly not sure if CloudStack is something that we want in a > distribution. > > Yes, I know that Ubuntu fully adopted OpenStack and you can very easily > deploy OpenStack nodes now. > > But thinking about the extra work it would bring to the project by keeping > all the packages synced. If we find a critical bug it's a lot of work to get > that all synced with the distros. > > If you really want to run a cloud, how hard is it to add a repo to your > Apt/Yum configuration? > > Wido
That's a fair argument. Not personally knowing what the CloudStack release to potential distro release cycle would look like, I'd like to hear more about that from others (or yourself ;-) ). To me, the positive side of this is the potential to grow our user-base and get more interest from distro developers in helping on the project. -chip
