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[Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Guilhem LETTRON (guilhem.lettron@xxxxxxxxx):
> Hi,
> 
> You can also add another project : https://github.com/clalancette/oz
> 
> I heard many good things about it at FOSDEM. Last version seems to work
> with latest Ubuntu.
> I created a launchpad project : https://launchpad.net/oz
> and ppas :
> https://launchpad.net/~oz-packagers/+archive/daily
> https://launchpad.net/~oz-packagers/+archive/stable

At the UDS-R vmbuilder session, oz was pointed to (by smoser) as the
most promising replacement for vmbuilder for those who can't use ubuntu
cloud images.  A large reason for this was the fact that it basically
wraps the ubuntu installer, which is always supported.  A big downside
is the horrible google-ability of the name :)

> I don't know what is the best way now.
> I do many work on vmbuilder ("Fixes for oneiric"), but my work may not be
> enough clean (no 1 commit by feature) to be merged now and it's a big
> architecture change.

Right I try to be very cautious with changes I personally apply to
vmbuilder because I'm afraid of breaking the usage for someone
who's been using it for years quietly with no problems.  If there
was a comprehensive testsuite for which I could script running on
every supported release, I might feel more brave.

> vmbuilder seems to have a very limited community, maybe a way it to help a

Note that at the UDS-R session noone seemed to feel opposed to
deprecating vmbuilder.  So the focus became what best to recommend
to replace it.

-serge