On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:48:33PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Quick show of hands: who cares about seeing OpenStack be in EPEL?
> 
> > Now, before I go any further:  who is with me?   Is there pent-up user 
> > demand for OpenStack on RHEL, or service providers who are loyal to the 
> > RHEL family who would benefit from having the packages in EPEL?  Or do we 
> > expect most OpenStack users to simply use Ubuntu/Canonical or a Citrix 
> > distribution thereof?  I don't want to push packages that are likely to go 
> > unused.
> 
> I anticipate using it and drilling it into pmman, probably 
> writing the needed connectors.  But I think that Enterprise 
> will probably have this anyway.  Are there not 'exclusion 
> because in the main distribution' issues likely?

A distinct possibility, but AFAICT, Red Hat has declined to
participate in OpenStack directly so far, which is well within their
rights (and perhaps strategy).  I'm not too concerned though - it has
happened over time that packages move from EPEL into RHEL proper,
there are procedures in place for such to ensure a smooth upgrade path
for users/customers, should Red Hat choose to do so.

I hadn't realized that Grid Dynamics did the original packaging for
RHEL; Mirantis picked it up for Fedora, then Mark and I, and now Angus
Salkeld have made improvements from there.  Time to re-merge with the
GD work before we get too far apart to make that clean, and to get
everyone working towards the same goal from a unified tree.

-- 
Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO
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