Re: Sprint 2019
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 04:35:59PM -0400, Jonathan Proulx wrote: :In the other direction "outbound" on the redline from MIT there's :Central Square :(https://www.bostonmagazine.com/property/2019/01/08/central-square-neighborhood-guide/) :and Harvard Square (https://www.harvardsquare.com/) both in Cambridge :and both with lots of restraunts. Central has more bars and night :clubs, Harvard has a few more souvenir and novelty shops (and some :little university I think) that central square link is a bit useless this wrte up from Boston Univesity for students isn't 100% current but general sense and most of particulars are still true: https://www.bu.edu/articles/2013/getting-to-know-your-neighborhood-central-square/ It's a slightly shabby local & student destination rather than the cleaner more touristy places, but has a fair bit going on if that's your thing. -Jon
Re: Plans for Vagrant Base boxes for Debian 11 / Bullseye
On Fri, 2019-09-13 at 17:33 +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote: > Hello > > For the next Debian release, I aim to have converted the current > vagrant > boxes tool chain to use fai-diskimage so it can be integrated to the > debian-cloud-images repository. > I expect this to be quite a bit of work, as fai has its own learning > curve, and the current vagrant box build process has many steps, and > covers two hypervisors, VirtualBox and libvirt with kvm. > Expected goals is to have the boxes listed in the Cloud Image web > folder > like Centos and Ubuntu. Also the current process of me building > locally > 12 images and uploading them via a poor ADSL connection does not > scale. > > For his reason and because my own resources are limited, I don't > intend > to release old stable and stable point releases for Vagrant Base > boxes > during this development cycle. Vagrant boxes are meant to provide > portable **development** environments, so I don't see a security > concern. > At some point the current vagrant cloud account, which I share the > access with Antonio (Terceiro) and Lucas (Nussbaum) should be put in > SPI's hand I suppose. > > If something here looks wrong, just shout. > > PS: I cannot attend the debian-cloud sprint this year, but thank you > Tomasz for pushing the tedious organizing work ! Hope to see you guys > at > the next sprint ! > Thanks for taking care of Vagrant. Do you think we should discuss it during sprint (even though you won't be there), or possibly on IRC (e.g. during our monthly meetings)? And - do you need some help from team? Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak, Debian Developer GPG: A565 CE64 F866 A258 4DDC F9C7 ECB7 3E37 E887 AA8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Adopting cloud-utils in the team
On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 01:59 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > I've pushed an upload of cloud-utils 0.31, and created a new Git repo > under the team's namespace for it. There was no upload of this > package > since 2016, so a refresh was much needed. I also dropped > cloud-utils-euca, since euca2ools is being removed from Debian (as > it's > not maintained upstream, and Python 2 only). Please test this by > booting > a new image and see if it resizes the partition correctly (as > growroot > is from there...). > Thanks for that. I guess this is another topic we'll need to talk at sprint - managing of packages which we depend on. Best regards. -- Tomasz Rybak, Debian Developer GPG: A565 CE64 F866 A258 4DDC F9C7 ECB7 3E37 E887 AA8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sprint 2019
On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 01:22:20PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Do we have an attendee count for room setup, I've variously hear 13 > and 40... The currently confirmed roster is at https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianCloud2019 and shows about 13 people. I wouldn't expect much deviation from that. noah
