openstack team mailing list archive

[Chuck Short <chuck.short@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:11:28 -0800
Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be:
> >
> > (0) The "2011.3 release" PPA bears false expectations and should be
> > removed now. In the future, we should not provide such PPAs: 0-day
> > packages for the release should be available from the "last
> > milestone" PPA anyway.
> >
> > (1) OpenStack, as an upstream project, should focus on development
> > rather than on providing a production-ready distribution.
> >
> > (2) We could provide "daily builds" from the stable/diablo branch
> > for a variety of releases (much like what we do for the master
> > branch), but those should be clearly marked "not for production
> > use" and be best-effort only (like our master branch builds).
> >
> > (3) This should not prevent a group in the community from working
> > on a project providing an "openstack on Lucid" production-ready
> > distribution if they so wishes. This project would just be another
> > distribution of OpenStack.
> 
> This doesn't seem like enough to me. OpenStack isn't just a library;
> it's a fairly substantial collection of software and services,
> intended to be used as a product. If it can't be used as a product,
> what's the use?
> 
> Someone made the suggestion that a new OpenStack group be started, one
> whose focus is on producing a production-ready, distribution-ready,
> release of the software. So can we add one more (need some help with
> wording, here...):
> 
> (4) OpenStack will accept and foster a new project, one that is not
> focused on development, but rather the distribution and it's general
> stability. This distro project will be responsible for advocating on
> behalf of various operating systems/distros/sponsoring vendors for
> bugs that affect performance and stability of OpenStack, or prevent an
> operating system from running OpenStack.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> d

Hi

We already have an little informal channel on freenode called
#openstack-packaging.

Regards
chuck