Philipp Wollermann wrote: > It's totally acceptable if Ubuntu chooses to handle their packages like this, > providing a very stable and reliable base system - though as it is also the > primary and kind of "official" platform for OpenStack deployments, I think it > would be greatly appreciated if there would be an officially maintained PPA > which contains the most up-to-date stable release of OpenStack for the latest > version(s) of Ubuntu. > Then, users themselves could choose whether to trust and track the official > releases or stick to Ubuntu's releases.
The openstack-ppa team may well be introducing a stable/essex PPA that will contain packages of the latest tip of that branch for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. But that will be an automated PPA with no guarantee -- good for testing but not so great for production purposes. Any production-grade distribution of OpenStack (and a PPA is a form of distribution) involves some editorial policy on the contents and some extra upgrade testing, which the openstack-ppa team is not staffed to deliver. There is room for other groups though: if any group wants to have a shot at maintaining something Ubuntu-based that is less bleeding-edge than openstack-ppa but still more fix-inclusive than official Ubuntu packages, just go for it ! -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
