> About working on Eucalytpus, yes, we want this mechanism to work in > Eucalyptus too, because we want people to know that there are new images of > Ubuntu available with new fixes and features and they might want to upgrade > (or perhaps they *really should* upgrade, in case of kernel issues). If you > have a proposal on how to offer this feature on both EC2 and Eucalyptus, > including simple image customizations, I'd like to know about it.
It would seem to me that any decision we can make server side could be made client side. It's little different from what apt-get does. It fetches a list of what's available, compares it to what it's got installed and decides what it wants to do. Compare this to sending the complete list of installed packages to a server somewhere which then decides which upgraded packages it wants to give you. >> I am saying that it appears to violate what I understood to be a promise >> from Ubuntu and that the implications should be considered carefully and >> the policy should be discussed publicly before the feature is implemented. > Again, as far as I'm aware of, the context you've been working on was in EC2, > and as such I can't see what's the promise Ubuntu would offer you when Amazon > is monitoring everything you are doing. Just because I trust my data to Amazon does not mean that I'm comfortable sharing my data with the rest of the world. That's the "trust" part. I don't see how this is relevant at all, though. Regardless of what Amazon may or may not be doing with your data, we should hold ourselves and Ubuntu to the highest possible standard and as far as possible respect our users' privacy. >> Again, I'm not fighting against this, but I think those who might oppose it >> should be given a chance to voice their concerns before it launches, >> rather than creating a ruckus afterwards > I believe you are already exercising this chance. What else would you suggest? I'm sure I don't understand what you're suggesting here. Are you suggesting that this is uncontroversial enough that this bug (which /extremely/ few of the target users will ever see) is enough exposure, and also that now that Eric has seen it, there couldn't possibly be more to be said? -- [FFE] ec2-init should check for image upgrades https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423856 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
