I certainly understand your position Thierry. However, I think it is important that we target one 'golden' platform, and that we take responsibility for any issues with that platform. Otherwise we simply end up pointing fingers and being blocked on backports, and the end result is a system that just doesn't work for the people actually deploying it. "File a bug upstream" is an appropriate response for me, but it's not really OK for end-users.
We could then have a policy that 'if Essex fails on TargetPlatform it's an OpenStack issue, otherwise it's a distro issue'. We can either work around the bug or work with TargetPlatform to get a bugfix integrated. Other distros can look to the golden platform to understand what patches are needed and how things are supposed to work. It sounds like Precise is a good candidate for Essex: it is an LTS release, and we have time to ensure that any required bugfixes (that we don't want to work around) make it into the official release. If that's agreeable, then e.g. we probably retarget devstack and our documentation from Oneiric to Precise. We should probably gate on Precise as well. I will be much happier if we just say "we aim to support X"; I don't really care what X is. I'm just going to be running OpenStack on the machine, so I'm not picking my distro e.g. based on how I feel about Unity. I'd imagine most users are in a similar camp. Justin On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: > Justin Santa Barbara wrote: >> Which operating system(s) are we aiming to support for Essex? Is the >> plan to backport the latest libvirt to Oneric, or are we going to wait >> for Precise? > > The question is the other way around: which operating systems aim to > support Essex ? We try to set the dependencies for OpenStack to a > reasonable set of versions (generally compatible with the release under > development of the major Linux distributions), but it's up to the > distributions themselves to make sure they align if they want to support > a given version of OpenStack. > > Ubuntu will ship Essex in 12.04 LTS. I don't think there are any plans > to backport it to 11.10. Fedora will support Essex in Fedora 17, etc. > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > Release Manager, OpenStack > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp