On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Mark Hinkle <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > >
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. ;-)
