> I am the one currently maintaining both XCP and OpenStack. I can > guarantee that you will be able to do dist-upgrades of servers running > both XCP and OpenStack for the full life cycle of Essex, yes. Probably, > it will also happen for XCP, as upstream (eg Citrix) seem to understand > the need we have in Debian.
Hi Thomas, this is idd partly the answer i was looking for: so to summarize: - XCP should be ok to upgrade when jessie becomes stable - OpenStack: will depend, another repo might be better, because the release cycle nature and upgrade process of openstack > > Though, for OpenStack, the situation is a little bit more complicated. > Upstream only support the last 2 release of OpenStack for security, and > support only upgrading from one version to the next. There is a new > release every 6 months. This means that if we want to provide a smooth > upgrade from Essex in Wheezy to the "J" release in Jessie, we will have > to do a lot of manual work. At this point, it is hard for me to predict > if there will be enough resources interested to do this work. > > However, if you wish to follow the release cycles of OpenStack, and > upgrade your cloud every 6 months, I keep some (non-official) backport > repositories for Wheezy. I am keeping these in good shape. I would > suggest that you use these Wheezy backports repositories for the moment. > > The problem for supporting upgrades from Essex to Grizzly directly (for > example) is that even upstream, there isn't enough resources interested > for working on that. > > The FTP masters made the announcement that they are working toward > providing some PPA for Debian. When these will be available, it is my > intention to move all OpenStack packages there. Using these PPA, it will > be possible to provide smooth upgrade following the upstream release > cycles directly within the Debian repositories. I am (like many I > suppose) really looking forward this possibility. > > I will do my best so that upgrades from Essex to the "J" (name of the > OpenStack release, not related to Debian Jessie) release in Jessie will > be possible and smooth, though it's hard to predict what will happen, > and if it will be doable. good luck, sounds like a challenge > > I am very sorry that I couldn't reply with a clear "yes", and that the > answer is a little bit more complicated. don't worry, i prefer an open honest answer, i'm not a only-selling-is-important guy:) tnx, Wim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1369852790.4510.32.camel@zwerfkat
