[Openstack-devel] Comments and sugestions for future upgrades

[Alberto Molina Coballes]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 01:07:15AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> I intend to maintain backport (unofficial) repositories for every
> release of Openstack. So, Wheezy for the moment, and I believe,
> including Havana.
> 

I know you are maintaing backport repositories for folsom and grizzly, thanks for this great work! Is it expected that these unofficial repositories will be ported to official "wheezy-backports"? Sometime ago I read that only folsom would be on wheezy-backports.

In relation to that. This morning we were testing Folsom install with these repos following the debian wiki howto and we found some bugs, what's the best way to report them?
> 
> I guess that the thing which is important is to keep your data, more
> than the systems. In this case, then the only thing that really maters
> is Swift / Glance / Cinder. I don't see how upgrades would break them...
> If they do, then this is a bug, and I'll try to address it.
> 
> Also, remember that I'm working on these packages so that they go into
> production. We (at eNovance) also need smooth upgrades. So I don't think
> it is a huge concern.
> 
> The only thing is that I will *not* support upgrading from version N to
> version N+2. Only from version N to version N+1, and LTS to LTS+1 (eg:
> Wheezy to Jessie). And probably, you will have to manually tweak the
> configuration files (I don't think that will be so hard though).
>

Interesting comments. The options are clearer to me now.

Regards,

Alberto