Dear Debian Kernel team, Charles Plessy and I share a longer interest to bring our Debian Med environment together with data and talk more about how to organise and use that environment. Now, with the advent of clouds this seems like good fit, and we learn that we are not alone in this thinking - in Debian and beyond.
The folks at Eucalyptus, a UC Santa Barbara off-spring offering an Open Source clone of the Amazon Web Services, are "with us" in various ways, the first have DM status. he idea is to offer squeeze as cloud ready, i.e. to offer readily available kernel-initrd pairs to serve as the basis for cloud-run images. Eucalyptus aims for a Debian partner status. My understanding is that there is basically no extra work for you as the Kernel team to do, though you should be aware of the additional channel into which your kernel/initrd setups are flowing. It should be a mere shell script that takes what is there and adds some ssh magic for cloud-typical access, but, whatever it is, we would find some way to render this transparent to you. A challenge now is a bit not to make mistakes in the Debian internal communication of the cloud's advent, so everyone is as happy as possible about the development. I would not want to surprise you via an announcement to Debian-Devel. Also, I would like to know your team to be in direct contact with Chris and/or Shashi (who are very busy with yet another release these days, please forgive some extra latency in their replies) from Eucalyptus, without too many opinions on Debian-Devel expecting too much immediately. After speaking to you, there is the Debian release team to contact, and I am currently seting up a local installation for testing and learning. The offering of readily installable binaries from your updates will be done through my hands if there are no other volunteers. To reduce complexity I would prefer to omit any discussion about Xen. KVM would be more of your liking, I presume. Here I am hoping for some guidance by your team. So, you all who read this, please feel introduced to yourselves and the current (pleasant, I think) situation. Please reply to all with your thoughts and requests/ideas about it all, Best regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
