Over this last cycle I have been putting a bit of thought into the Ubuntu Cloud Images build, daily promotion and release process. Of concern is making sure that the Ubuntu Cloud Images are of the quality and performance that our users both expect and demand.
At UDS [1,2] this October, I am going to propose a change in the way that Ubuntu Cloud Image stable releases are generated and released [3]. Specifically of interest to this audience, I am going to propose that we move from the ad-hoc release cadence -- where a release is need-based -- to an automatic release schedule based on the availability of security and boot critical packages that normally require a reboot upon updating[4]. For most stable released Ubuntu versions, a new version of the cloud images would be made available every three weeks, which follows the release cadence of the Kernel SRU team (or ~18 releases per stable release per year). The biggest motivation for proposing this change is to reduce the number of updates upon boot and to make sure that the stable release images are up-to-date. One side effect to having an automatic release process is that the email announcements of new cloud images will need to change in both content and frequency. Are these emails valuable, is the content sufficient or too much or if we released automatically every three weeks, would it be better to discontinue the emails? Or would it be sufficient to capture this information on a webpage? Before UDS, I wanted to gather feedback from our valued community; any feedback, concerns or questions about this proposal would be most appreciated. Thanks, Ben [1] http://uds.ubuntu.com/ [2] UDS is from 29 October to 01 November 2012 [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-cloudtesting [4] i.e. kernel, glibc, security updates -- Ben Howard ben.how...@canonical.com Canonical GPG ID 0x5406A866
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