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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> The last time I sat down with a keen potential Launchpad hacker and
> got them set up with Launchpad, it took about six hours.
>
> Granted, this was on Karmic before Max Bowsher et al made it actually
> possible to use Karmic. But it's still a long time.
>
> What can we do to make it easier to go from "I want to hack on
> Launchpad" to "I have a running development instance of Launchpad"?

Write a fully scripted install that turns a minimally installed hardy or karmic box into a Launchpad development environment.

Use this script to rebuild virtual machine images and ec2 images nightly.

Publish them if they pass basic tests.

Developers can download and boot the virtual machine. The ec2 tools can use the new images.

Future:

- Staging can use the image.
- Production rollouts can be simplified by booting new cloud boxes and cutting over using the load balancer rather than rolling upgrades done in place and the horrible backout procedure if things go wrong.


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Stuart Bishop <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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