Thanks Charles, We will certainly bring this up and discuss cloud-init broadly as well (I think it warrants some time).
Japan wakes up during our early evening. If there is a time one of these mornings that you want to join let me know and we'll save this discussion for then. 4PM Seattle is 8AM in Tokyo. ----- Zach Marano [email protected] On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > thanks again Zach for organising this Sprint. > > I just looked again at the time zone difference between Japan and Seattle, > and > I realised that it will be too hard for me to be available remotely. > > Nevertheless, if you could discuss about maintenance of cloud-init, I > would be > very happy. > > On my side, it is still a challenge, and a pressure, to give proper time to > this package. At the moment, I do not have opportunities to use it > regularly, > which leaves me in the situation where I can do patch pushing, but have no > deep > understanding on whether things work robustly. I would be releived if > there > were a more visible team taking care of it. In my experience, there are > two > main difficulties. First, the upstream authors do not issue frequent point > releases. It means that to bring a bug fix in Debian, one needs either to > wait, or to patch, or to grab one of the bzr snapshots used as upstream > release > in the Ubuntu packages (which are de facto point releases). Second, we are > downstream of Ubuntu. It means that either we duplicate work, or we end > up in > odd situations when trying to follow their packaging work (for instance > with > the translation process). None of this is too hard to solve, but it adds > some > overhead to the time needed for taking a proper care of the package, so > please > be warned. > > Since I will not be present, here are some very brief news on my attempts > to > use Debian-Installer in the AWS. I have updated the instructions on the > wiki > to use the latest `aws` command line utility instead of `euca2ools`. > Following > these instructions, one can make a bootable D-I image that will install > Debian > in a volume, and turn that volume in an image. Using network-console, the > whole installation can be done interactively. Next, I would like to write > a > preseed file to automate the installation. While aiming at this, I first > procrastinated a bit and wrote a Haskell script that parses all Debconf > templates from D-I and ouptuts them in a single HTML page, to better > document > the possible options. This is where I am now. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/09/msg00075.html > > https://wiki.debian.org/Cloud/AmazonEC2DebianInstaller > > Have a nice day, > > Charles > > -- > Charles Plessy > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan >
