"Packaging" is just a minor step and the last one. But also an important one. Without propering packaging, installation and updates can be a real pain. We should give "packaging" a lot of love, but there is people much more prepared to do it, and with a little of help, can do a great job.
When one installs an stable release in a production environment, expects it to have some minor updates and bug fixed for a not so small period of time (6 months looks to short for me). Having new releases every 6 months can be really painful in terms on maintain every release "bug free" for its lifetime. (Having a lifetime of 1 year, implies to maintain 3 releases while working on a new one, very time consuming). Maybe not every release should be consider equal in terms of prodution release. Ghe Rivero On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@cern.ch> wrote: > > We need more than 'just' packaging.... it is using the testing, > documentation and above all care to produce *and* maintain a stable release > that production sites can rely on for 6-12 months and know that others are > relying on it too. > > Who is going to make the judgement that a bug fix to the latest Essex > development branch is a valid patch for a backport to stable/diablo and > does not break production sites ? > > Diablo 2011.3 brought much functionality but also some useful points to > consider for the future as to how we organise the project. > > Tim > > > > > (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 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- .''`. Pienso, Luego Incordio : :' : `. `' `- www.debian.org www.hispalinux.es GPG Key: 26F020F7 GPG fingerprint: 4986 39DA D152 050B 4699 9A71 66DB 5A36 26F0 20F7
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