On 01/16/2013 04:56 PM, Mark Hinkle wrote:
On Jan 16, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Mark Hinkle <mark.hin...@citrix.com> wrote:
+1
I think this is probably one of the most important things we can do to make it
easy for users to install and important for us to help distribution (no pun
intended) of CloudStack.
Wido's concern about time to bundle is important but if we get into the distros
we get much wider distribution and I think we'll get many more interested users
and some portion fo them will work on packaging and IMHO we'll net more
development resources above and beyond work needed to packaging. Also as
CloudStack gets more popular we'll see more people whose security policies will
forbid the use of the community run repos.
It's a huge PIA to do and the guidelines for each distribution are usually a
one-off but I think it's critical for widespread adoption.
Mark
On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Since packaging is a theme yet again (and we seem to be headed in a
direction that is useful for a distro packager), I wanted to raise the
idea of trying to work with various Linux distros to get CloudStack
into their official package repos. I see the 4.1.0 release as being
the ideal release
I know that we have had various packagers represented on this list on
and off, and I suspect that there are quite a few lurkers hanging
around.
My question to the community is: does it make sense for the Apache
CloudStack community to reach out to various linux disto communities
and see if they would be willing to include the software (as well as
offer packaging help if needed)?
My questions to folks that might be on this list representing
different distros: Are you interested? If so, how can we work with
your community most effectively? Last, CloudStack is obviously still
a podling (and our release numbers still reflect "-incubating"). Is
our graduation a prerequisite in your opinion?
Thanks!
-chip
Does anyone in the community want to drive an initiative like this?
This might be a great way for someone new to help out on the project,
and get lots of kudos for the work. ;-)
I am not exactly new to CloudStack but I have the contacts at almost all of the
distributions and would be glad to help project manage the process. My coding
kung fu is pretty weak but I would love to team up with the packagers to
lighten the bureaucratic load for those guys who have real skills :)
Mark
That would be great. We should postpone this to post-4.1 I think, since
we (Noa, Hugo and I) are working on the packaging now. (See the other
discussions)
Wido
