+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 <[email protected]> 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
