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On 01/15/2015 01:14 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> On 01/14/2015 07:28 AM, Csaba Henk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope I'm addressing the right list -- if not, please point
>> me where it's appropriate.
>>
>> We (Manila developers) plan to start a new side-project that would
>> be hosted on Stackforge. It's tentatively named "Manila Image Project",
>> although it would not necessarily be Manila specific.
>>
>> It's aim is to provide infrastructure for building custom VM images.
> Before we even get to the specific licensing questions - can I ask why
> you would not either use the existing tool diskimage-builder as it is or
> join forces and add features if it does not meet your needs?

I for one would love to join forces with people who are already working 
on this stuff. Building a linux distro is not part of the Manila team's 
core mission. That being said, one of the goals of the proposed project 
is to build an extremely compact image -- closer to cirros than a 
typical linux distro. I look forward to learning about diskimage-builder 
and finding out if it's at all suitable for our purposes.

-Ben Swartzlander