On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:11:28 -0800 Duncan McGreggor <dun...@dreamhost.com> wrote:
> On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: > > > > (0) The "2011.3 release" PPA bears false expectations and should be > > removed now. In the future, we should not provide such PPAs: 0-day > > packages for the release should be available from the "last > > milestone" PPA anyway. > > > > (1) OpenStack, as an upstream project, should focus on development > > rather than on providing a production-ready distribution. > > > > (2) We could provide "daily builds" from the stable/diablo branch > > for a variety of releases (much like what we do for the master > > branch), but those should be clearly marked "not for production > > use" and be best-effort only (like our master branch builds). > > > > (3) This should not prevent a group in the community from working > > on a project providing an "openstack on Lucid" production-ready > > distribution if they so wishes. This project would just be another > > distribution of OpenStack. > > This doesn't seem like enough to me. OpenStack isn't just a library; > it's a fairly substantial collection of software and services, > intended to be used as a product. If it can't be used as a product, > what's the use? > > Someone made the suggestion that a new OpenStack group be started, one > whose focus is on producing a production-ready, distribution-ready, > release of the software. So can we add one more (need some help with > wording, here...): > > (4) OpenStack will accept and foster a new project, one that is not > focused on development, but rather the distribution and it's general > stability. This distro project will be responsible for advocating on > behalf of various operating systems/distros/sponsoring vendors for > bugs that affect performance and stability of OpenStack, or prevent an > operating system from running OpenStack. > > Thoughts? > > d Hi We already have an little informal channel on freenode called #openstack-packaging. Regards chuck _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
