Open Stack

On 11/30/2011 7:59 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:
>
>> I don't have anything concrete to offer as an alternative, but I'd
>> love to see something like devstack that runs either from git or
>> tarballs and supports multiple distributions.
> For production, we recommend people use packages. I think there's a lot
> of value in using the same installation mechanism for QA as for
> production.
>
This, for us, is the main issue.  We use devstack for various things but 
unfortunately "install from source" is very different from "install for 
production", more so in python/openstack than some other technologies.  
When we are testing a new build to see whether a problem was fixed or a 
new feature is working we just want to change the pointer to the ppa. I 
understand that if some source change induces the need for a packaging 
change then an auto-created ppa will stop working. It is also true that 
creating packages as part of a build process may end up favoring some 
packaging system over another. Still, I don't think that is a reason to 
force users to have their own  (or, cringe, manual) processes to create 
packages that can feed into a test-for-production environment when 
jenkins can just do it for a few popular systems.

  -David