-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Soren
I discussed your questions re what LTS means with Sage (upstream project founder). Exactly how long 'long term' is is still being defined based on user/distro/other project requirements but we did discuss the following... On 19/02/13 13:46, Soren Hansen wrote: >> Background >>> - ---------- >>> >>> Ceph was included in Ubuntu main during the 12.04 release >>> cycle; since then upstream Ceph have started maintaining LTS >>> releases of Ceph; Quantal shipped with the 'argonaut' LTS >>> release and Raring will ship the 'bobtail' LTS release. > What does LTS mean for Ceph? How long do they expect to support it > for? Each LTS release goes through a period of aggressive bug fix backporting; this does tail off BUT if users do encounter a bug then it would still be addressed upstream given sufficient criticality. > Are the bobtail and argonaut releases indicative of the frequency > of LTS releases? In other words, can we reasoably expect to have a > fresh LTS in each Ubuntu release? Ceph are moving to a 3 month release cadence - not every Ceph release will be an LTS release but the LTS releases are expected to line up with distro releases. > If not, have you given any thought to how you'll handle the > situation where our release cycle doesn't line up well with > upstream's LTS releases? If this does happen we would just stick with the most recent LTS release available. >>> Ubuntu Ceph Testing - ------------------- > [...] >>> In addition, we are currently setting up regular testing of >>> Ceph 'standalone' in multi-node configurations to support more >>> in-depth testing of ceph itself. This will include basic smoke >>> testing of key components to start with and may expand to >>> include executing upstream regression tests on the packages we >>> publish/propose for inclusion in the Ubuntu archive. > I think this is a must-have. If upstream already has a good test > suite, we should as far as possible be using that in our testing as > well. Agreed - I will work on this. Would basic smoke testing be sufficient for a provisional MRE? Cheers James - -- James Page Ubuntu Core Developer Debian Maintainer [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRLouIAAoJEL/srsug59jDLXoP/iljtENm7Z2uZKx/IJNT5aa3 3KeKOBHnDprkd+N7zKfgQDyVrWwHeMX9etKCJy2yufW+Bb9dD9DPjXjPwZDpOOMK zgtBU9Q/jK1i4RPwYAoOv3YljInSsQE2bsSWfRk7mEW1BOqQaqNwKuN4uqpIxFg0 UHasRxE0jr8tWDCANkAVQU2vzH7LQvcS3HTQhwkjjZGPLl9MpN0RY271Y1eMB7Q1 93hFFqYRDzxRdS1BUIzrTaapMYq0QB08u2Oe0UsGHkocAwbevWQjG86ZjrhEA4Y/ u2DvVtUmBZTPfA22vZdbxOhRdvKwbRq3gRTl5o0BgY5YaacQH0aoCxwA8tfS/rOI eeur21uCXoRc1JD0uHfsSd3b+ADWRFASdp8SK4SpP2hZTvqlP5iow9ex1BKDrZh5 5cAPq0bJWiJqL/8LiPIZiNd6ccrgKR+zFR5JpW37f1sT/k1PS4jUebeUGsA9YhsY nE8y2iDl6E47bHzKIjquQNcdYkP0APNnskUeWr09jZOGriyHOmsezuAK6CVHmTvA 95oWTZVkcZg1HJDQATJuTBsv72aHKiBeL8IRGggiVQ9Do8Zcuj5Uqyzt2En0dTOX Gzx91dAyTPp3VuY3Gk4qHhi1bk5gOpBbXnh0/AhBD2q/vLmheU2SS+cJaAnjGnFC 4/V/b30rtJXK6nNyQm4Q =pRuh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
