Open Stack

On 10/07/13 12:20, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto:tom at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/07/13 00:48, Steve Gordon wrote:
>
>         My understanding is that at least RPM/DEB packages are likely to
>         be available *very* shortly after the actual release for Havana.
>
>
>     I'll take a bullish line, which may not necessarily be achievable:
>
>     """
>     On the day that the press release for Havana is sent out, we need
>     -by hook or by crook!- to have installation instructions for RHEL
>     and Ubuntu, and ideally SUSE and Debian too.
>     """
>
>     I'm thinking: "if you can't install the software, then it's not
>     really a release, is it?". Release day is our time to shine :)
>
>     So, feasibility/sanity check:
>     * This is unlikely to be provided in time by our friends at RH or
>     Canonical, leaving:
>     Option 1: Delay the press release
>     Option 2: DIY
>
>     Personally, I think Option 1 would be terrible for the community's
>     "feelings", and tying OpenStack to particular product offerings is
>     not something we should probably be doing :)
>
>     So, for me, that leaves Option 2 :)
>
>     but, it's early in the morning .... are there other alternatives?
>
>
>
> Tom:
>
> Just to be explicit here, I can imagine three scenarios for "release day"
>
> 1. Downstream packages haven't been released yet  :(
> 2. Downstream packages have been released, but there are no accompanying
> install docs   :|
> 3. Downstream packages and accompanying install docs have been released  :)
>
> For "DIY", are you talking about scenario #1 or scenario #2 (or both?).
>
> Steve alluded to scenario 1 being unlikely, but we should probably talk
> to the distros to see how they plan to align their release packages to
> the official OpenStack release.

Yup, I think in practice #2 is what happens, and that was the one I was 
referring to :)

Regards,

Tom