[Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

Duncan McGreggor duncan at dreamhost.com
Wed Nov 30 17:53:37 UTC 2011


On 30 Nov 2011 - 13:57, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Hi,
> > TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger
> > than you think (and doing that will alienate some distro packaging
> > resources), so we'll either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus
> > on the development release. If there is a need, it should be done as
> > an alternate distribution, not inside the OpenStack project.
> >
>
> As Julien Danjou wrote, we ( OpenStack Debian GNU/Linux packagers [1])
> discussed your mail.  We are comfortable with the idea that OpenStack
> focuses on  development and that packaging is left to the packagers
> involved in  each distribution.
>
> Packaging related patches from Julien Danjou were recently accepted
> upstream (https://review.openstack.org/#dashboard,1669). This is the
> kind of cooperation that makes it possible to maintain packages
> matching  the Debian GNU/Linux quality standard. We are confident in
> our ability  to provide stable packages in the future.
>
> OpenStack packaging is not an easy task. It currently fits nicely in
> Debian GNU/Linux. However,  as it evolves towards a system widely used
> in production, it will face  new challenges and the communities
> working on packaging for each  distribution will provide valuable
> input to developers. Creating a  "packaging team" with representatives
> for each distribution and electing  someone to represent them in the
> Policy Board could achieve this.

Very +1.

d

> Cheers
>
> [1] PKG OpenStack page :
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/openstack/and corresponding
> packages:
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=openstack-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?packages=nova
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?packages=glance
>
>
>

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