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Excerpts from Luigi Toscano's message of 2017-05-16 11:50:53 +0200:
> On Monday, 15 May 2017 21:12:16 CEST Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Michał Jastrzębski's message of 2017-05-15 10:52:12 -0700:
> > 
> > > On 15 May 2017 at 10:34, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm raising the issue here to get some more input into how to
> > > > proceed. Do other people think this concern is overblown? Can we
> > > > mitigate the risk by communicating through metadata for the images?
> > > > Should we stick to publishing build instructions (Dockerfiles, or
> > > > whatever) instead of binary images? Are there other options I haven't
> > > > mentioned?
> > > 
> > > Today we do publish build instructions, that's what Kolla is. We also
> > > publish built containers already, just we do it manually on release
> > > today. If we decide to block it, I assume we should stop doing that
> > > too? That will hurt users who uses this piece of Kolla, and I'd hate
> > > to hurt our users:(
> > 
> > Well, that's the question. Today we have teams publishing those
> > images themselves, right? And the proposal is to have infra do it?
> > That change could be construed to imply that there is more of a
> > relationship with the images and the rest of the community (remember,
> > folks outside of the main community activities do not always make
> > the same distinctions we do about teams). So, before we go ahead
> > with that, I want to make sure that we all have a chance to discuss
> > the policy change and its implications.
> 
> Sorry for hijacking the thread, but we have a similar scenario for example in 
> Sahara. It is about full VM images containing Hadoop/Spark/other_big_data 
> stuff, and not containers, but it's looks really the same.
> So far ready-made images have been published under http://sahara-files.mirantis.com/images/upstream/, but we are looking to have them hosted on 
> openstack.org, just like other artifacts. 
> 
> We asked about this few days ago on openstack-infra@, but no answer so far 
> (the Summit didn't help):
> 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2017-April/005312.html
> 
> I think that the answer to the question raised in this thread is definitely 
> going to be relevant for our use case.
> 
> Ciao

Thanks for raising this. I think the same concerns apply to VM images.

Doug