On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:11 AM, 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? >
+1 on this idea - I think it has a lot of benefits in coordinating distro activity. mike _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
