From what I understand, the SmokeStack integration tests are running on Ubuntu 11.10 (XenServer) and Fedora 16 (Libvirt), so as a practical matter those platforms will be more battle-tested even if they aren't officially blessed as supported platforms.
Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein Lead Architect - Cloud Services Nimbis Services, Inc. www.nimbisservices.com On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: > I certainly understand your position Thierry. However, I think it is > important that we target one 'golden' platform, and that we take > responsibility for any issues with that platform. Otherwise we simply > end up pointing fingers and being blocked on backports, and the end > result is a system that just doesn't work for the people actually > deploying it. "File a bug upstream" is an appropriate response for > me, but it's not really OK for end-users. > > We could then have a policy that 'if Essex fails on TargetPlatform > it's an OpenStack issue, otherwise it's a distro issue'. We can > either work around the bug or work with TargetPlatform to get a bugfix > integrated. Other distros can look to the golden platform to > understand what patches are needed and how things are supposed to > work. > > It sounds like Precise is a good candidate for Essex: it is an LTS > release, and we have time to ensure that any required bugfixes (that > we don't want to work around) make it into the official release. > > If that's agreeable, then e.g. we probably retarget devstack and our > documentation from Oneiric to Precise. We should probably gate on > Precise as well. > > I will be much happier if we just say "we aim to support X"; I don't > really care what X is. I'm just going to be running OpenStack on the > machine, so I'm not picking my distro e.g. based on how I feel about > Unity. I'd imagine most users are in a similar camp. > > Justin > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: >> Justin Santa Barbara wrote: >>> Which operating system(s) are we aiming to support for Essex? Is the >>> plan to backport the latest libvirt to Oneric, or are we going to wait >>> for Precise? >> >> The question is the other way around: which operating systems aim to >> support Essex ? We try to set the dependencies for OpenStack to a >> reasonable set of versions (generally compatible with the release under >> development of the major Linux distributions), but it's up to the >> distributions themselves to make sure they align if they want to support >> a given version of OpenStack. >> >> Ubuntu will ship Essex in 12.04 LTS. I don't think there are any plans >> to backport it to 11.10. Fedora will support Essex in Fedora 17, etc. >> >> -- >> Thierry Carrez (ttx) >> Release Manager, OpenStack >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
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