Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-12 Thread Everett Toews
+1 for OpenStack Essex LTS + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Ghe Rivero g...@debian.org wrote: I'm ok with everything so far, but from http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch: *The stable branch will only be maintained until the next release is out. This period may be

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-08 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 07 Dec 2011 - 08:15, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 14:12 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 21:14, Thierry Carrez wrote: Tim Bell wrote: I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch.

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-08 Thread Ghe Rivero
I'm ok with everything so far, but from http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch: *The stable branch will only be maintained until the next release is out. This period may be extended if there are volunteers to maintain it beyond this point.* With a 6 months release cycles, it still looks a sort

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 14:12 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 21:14, Thierry Carrez wrote: Tim Bell wrote: I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch. The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:11 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we should not provide such

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread John Garbutt
On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote: Yikes! I forgot an incredibly important one: * What is the migration path story (diablo to essex, essex to f, etc.)? I think it was going to be the Upgrades Team? ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 23:56 +0100, Loic Dachary wrote: I think there is an opportunity to leverage the momentum that is growing in each distribution by creating an openstack team for them to meet. Maybe Stefano Maffulli has an idea about how to go in this direction. The IRC channel was a great

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 07 Dec 2011 - 08:22, Mark McLoughlin wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 10:11 -0800, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-07 Thread Loic Dachary
On 12/07/2011 10:32 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 23:56 +0100, Loic Dachary wrote: I think there is an opportunity to leverage the momentum that is growing in each distribution by creating an openstack team for them to meet. Maybe Stefano Maffulli has an idea about how to

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Thierry Carrez
So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we should not provide such PPAs: 0-day packages for the release should be available from the last milestone PPA anyway. (1) OpenStack, as

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Tim Bell
Thierry, I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch. The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need to have something with the appropriate bug fixes back ported. There are an increasing number of sites looking to deploy in production and cannot follow the latest

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 06 Dec 2011 - 10:11, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we should not provide such PPAs:

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Chuck Short
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:11:28 -0800 Duncan McGreggor dun...@dreamhost.com wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Pittaro
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Duncan McGreggor dun...@dreamhost.com wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we should

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Thierry Carrez
Tim Bell wrote: I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch. The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need to have something with the appropriate bug fixes back ported. There are an increasing number of sites looking to deploy in production and cannot follow the

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread ghe. rivero
(4) OpenStack will accept and foster a new project, one that is not focused on development, but rather the distribution and it's general stability. This distro project will be responsible for advocating on behalf of various operating systems/distros/sponsoring vendors for bugs that affect

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Thierry Carrez
Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should be removed now. In the future, we should not provide such PPAs: 0-day packages for the release

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Tim Bell
We need more than 'just' packaging it is using the testing, documentation and above all care to produce *and* maintain a stable release that production sites can rely on for 6-12 months and know that others are relying on it too. Who is going to make the judgement that a bug fix to the

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 06 Dec 2011 - 13:52, Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 21:14, Thierry Carrez wrote: Tim Bell wrote: I'm not clear on who will be maintaining the stable/diablo branch. The people such as EPEL for RedHat systems need to have something with the appropriate bug fixes back

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
The purpose of the stable branch and the maint team that theirry mentioned earlier is to vet patches. Are you suggesting that we need a point release system for openstack outside of relying on distros to pick release points? Vish On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Tim Bell wrote: We need more

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread ghe. rivero
Packaging is just a minor step and the last one. But also an important one. Without propering packaging, installation and updates can be a real pain. We should give packaging a lot of love, but there is people much more prepared to do it, and with a little of help, can do a great job. When one

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 06 Dec 2011 - 23:56, Loic Dachary wrote: On 12/06/2011 09:24 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Duncan McGreggor wrote: On 06 Dec 2011 - 14:28, Thierry Carrez wrote: So the general consensus so far on this discussion seems to be: (0) The 2011.3 release PPA bears false expectations and should

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-12-06 Thread Tim Bell
The stable team with Duncan's additions would fully address my concerns. Tim ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help :

[Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Thierry Carrez
Hi everyone, Yesterday, Vish and Monty raised the need for the OpenStack project to provide a maintained set of packages for stable versions of OpenStack on yet-unsupported versions of distributions. TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and doing

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Julien Danjou
On Wed, Nov 30 2011, Thierry Carrez wrote: Hi Thierry, TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and doing that will alienate some distro packaging resources), so we'll either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus on the development release. If

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:32 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and doing that will alienate some distro packaging resources), so we'll either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus on the development release. If

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Soren Hansen
I think there are two distinct use cases here. To me, the PPA's have always been a QA tool. I wanted people willing to help test OpenStack to be able to do so with as little effort as possible. Building packages per-commit gave us that. It seems incredibly counterintuitive to me that someone

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Thierry Carrez
Soren Hansen wrote: I propose we start building packages from the stable branches and put them in an appropriately named/labeled PPA, such as nova-core/diablo-qa or nova-core/diablo-not-for-production (or perhaps under openstack-stable-maint). [...] That would work (and inside the current

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:07 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: I think there are two distinct use cases here. Totally agree. We need to make it as easy as possible for people to test upstream git branches and releases. To me, the PPA's have always been a QA tool. I wanted people willing to help test

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/11/30 Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org: Soren Hansen wrote: I propose we start building packages from the stable branches and put them in an appropriately named/labeled PPA, such as nova-core/diablo-qa or nova-core/diablo-not-for-production (or perhaps under openstack-stable-maint).

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Loic Dachary
Hi, TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and doing that will alienate some distro packaging resources), so we'll either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus on the development release. If there is a need, it should be done as an alternate

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/11/30 Mark McLoughlin mar...@redhat.com: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:07 +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: I propose we start building packages from the stable branches and put them in an appropriately named/labeled PPA, such as nova-core/diablo-qa or nova-core/diablo-not-for-production (or perhaps

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Lloyd Dewolf
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Soren Hansen so...@linux2go.dk wrote: To me, the PPA's have always been a QA tool. I wanted people willing to help test OpenStack to be able to do so with as little effort as possible.  Building packages per-commit gave us that. +1 I don't have any insights on the

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread David Kranz
On 11/30/2011 7:59 AM, Soren Hansen wrote: I don't have anything concrete to offer as an alternative, but I'd love to see something like devstack that runs either from git or tarballs and supports multiple distributions. For production, we recommend people use packages. I think there's a lot

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Duncan McGreggor
On 30 Nov 2011 - 13:57, Loic Dachary wrote: Hi, TL;DR summary: The resources needed to do that properly are bigger than you think (and doing that will alienate some distro packaging resources), so we'll either do a terrible job at it, or lose focus on the development release. If there is

Re: [Openstack] Providing packages for stable releases of OpenStack

2011-11-30 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:18 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: Soren Hansen wrote: I propose we start building packages from the stable branches and put them in an appropriately named/labeled PPA, such as nova-core/diablo-qa or nova-core/diablo-not-for-production (or perhaps under