Hi all,
During the IRC meeting today Chip asked me if I could update the list
about the packaging progress since it's important for the 4.1 release.
Yes, we are aware that Apache projects do source releases, but having
the stuff in place to actually generate working packages is something we
should do imho.
Anyway, my $dayjob is taking a lot of time and I didn't get to this.
But since Chip pointed me to it again I picked it up again and worked on
it a bit the last 2 hours.
The packages are now prefixed with cloudstack-* instead of cloud. This
is to prevent any name conflicts with other packages and also to make it
more clear.
This is still very early work and the packages are not in a state yet
where they can be used, it's just for testing.
I'm aware that the feature freeze for 4.1 is coming up and QA for 4.1
has to start. Having good packages will make QA much easier. The upgrade
path from 4.0 to 4.1 will also have to be tested which is more complex
due to the package renaming and squashing. (less packages).
The current progress can be tracked at:
https://github.com/noaresare/incubator-cloudstack/commits/packaging
As you can see, we've been kind of idle.
Next week Hugo, Noa and I will meet up at Build A Cloud Day in Belgium
and hopefully we can make some good progress that day.
Wido
On 01/09/2013 11:04 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote:
Hi all,
I was contacted by Noa Resare from Spotify (you might have seen him on
the mailinglist) regarding the Ubuntu and Debian packaging progress.
He volunteered to help with fixing this packaging the right way, but we
stumbled upon the problem that he doesn't have commit rights, this
prevented us from working in the "packaging" branch.
After a Skype conversation yesterday we decided to fork the CloudStack
repo on Github[0] and work there.
I know it's preferred that development stays at the ASF repo, but it
would mean that Noa would have to sent everything in patches to me and
I'd have to apply them.
With this e-mail I want to let people know that we are working on
CLOUDSTACK-756 [1] on that Github repo.
Afterwards we'll rebase and merge everything into master so that we have
new and shiny packages for the 4.1 release without WAF.
I'll make sure we'll keep Hugo in the loop since he's doing the RPM
packaging which shares a lot with the DEB packaging.
Questions or remarks?
Wido
[0]: https://github.com/noaresare/incubator-cloudstack/commits/packaging
[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-765
