TWO hands UP!! would love to see it in EPEL. -Anuar-
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Matt Domsch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > cloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud > -- .: war|ola :. Use Fedora Linux for better computing experience http://fedoraproject.org
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