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st 9. 1. 2019 v 14:08 odesílatel Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> napsal:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 1/9/19 12:28 PM, Jan Vondra wrote:
> > út 8. 1. 2019 v 12:00 odesílatel Marcin Juszkiewicz
> > <marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org> napsal:
> >>
> >> W dniu 08.01.2019 o 11:08, Jan Vondra pisze:
> >>> Dear Kolla team,
> >>>
> >>> during project for one of our customers we have upgraded debian part
> >>> of kolla project using a queens debian repositories
> >>> (http://stretch-queens.debian.net/debian stretch-queens-backports) and
> >>> we would like to share this work with community.
> >>
> >> Thanks for doing that. Is there an option to provide arm64 packages next
> >> time?
> >>
> >
> > It's more of a question for OpenStack Debian Team - namely Thomas
> > Goirand who creates this repo.
>
> We do not produce arm64 backports for Stretch, because I don't have
> access to an arm64 instance to build packages. It would also be a lot of
> manual work, and I'm not sure I would have the time for it. However, I
> could help you setting that up, it's not very hard. Also, Debian
> official (ie: Sid, Buster) has arm64 packages, and it will be in Buster.
>
> >>> I would like to ask what's the proper process of contributing since
> >>> the patches affects both kolla and kolla-ansible repositories.
> >>
> >> Send patches for review [1] and then we can discuss about changing them.
> >> Remember that we target Stein now.
> >>
> >> 1. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Contribute#Reviewing
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for help (and others with updated links) - I will upload
> > patches today or tomorrow.
>
> If you want to contribute to the Debian packaging, it's done in the
> Gitlab instance of Debian:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team
>
> Contributors are very much welcome!
>

Well, it's Michals (kevko) responsibility in our company :)

> >>> Also any other comments regarding debian in kolla would be appriciated.
> >>
> >> Love to see someone else caring about Debian in Kolla. I took it over
> >> two years ago, revived and moved to 'stretch'. But skipped support for
> >> binary packages as there were no up-to-date packages available.
> >>
> >> In next 2-4 months I plan to migrate Kolla 'master' to Debian 'buster'
> >> as it will enter final freeze. Had some discussion with Debian OpenStack
> >> team about providing preliminary Stein packages so support for 'binary'
> >> type of images could be possible.
> >
> > I suppose that switch from Queens to Stein would be quite easy since
> > all packages in Queens in Debian are Python 3 only so the most of the
> > work has been already done.
>
> Why not switching to Rocky right now, which has been the most tested?

The main point is that we have Queens deployed for customers and we
have to support it. Still there is planned upgrade to Rocky in few
months and probably to Stein sometime...

Jan Vondra