Open Stack

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:57:31AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> > On 2014-08-08 09:06:29 -0400 (-0400), Russell Bryant wrote:
> > [...]
> >> We've seen several times that building and maintaining 3rd party
> >> CI is a *lot* of work.
> >
> > Building and maintaining *any* CI is a *lot* of work, not the least
> > of which is the official OpenStack project CI (I believe Monty
> > mentioned in #openstack-infra last night that our CI is about twice
> > the size of Travis-CI now, not sure what metric he's comparing there
> > though).
> >
> >> Like you said in [1], doing this in infra's CI would be ideal. I
> >> think 3rd party should be reserved for when running it in the
> >> project's infrastructure is not an option for some reason
> >> (requires proprietary hw or sw, for example).
> >
> > Add to the "not an option for some reason" list, software which is
> > not easily obtainable through typical installation channels (PyPI,
> > Linux distro-managed package repositories for their LTS/server
> > releases, et cetera) or which requires gyrations which destabilize
> > or significantly complicate maintenance of the overall system as
> > well as reproducibility for developers. It may be possible to work
> > around some of these concerns via access from multiple locations
> > coupled with heavy caching, but adding that in for a one-off source
> > is hard to justify the additional complexity too.
> 
> My understanding is that Fedora has a PPA equivalent which ships a
> "latest and greated" libvirt. So, it would be packages if we went the
> Fedora route, which should be less work.

Yes, there is the 'virt preview' repository

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

Regards,
Daniel
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