[PKG-Openstack-devel] networking-mlnx changes for Mitaka

[Thomas Goirand]

On 01/07/2016 07:40 PM, Moshe Levi wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Goirand [mailto:zigo at debian.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 11:40 AM
>> To: Moshe Levi <moshele at mellanox.com>
>> Cc: Aviram Bar Haim <aviramb at mellanox.com>; Lenny Verkhovsky
>> <lennyb at mellanox.com>; Andrey Yevsyukov <andreyy at mellanox.com>; Dudu
>> Slama <dudus at mellanox.com>
>> Subject: Re: networking-mlnx changes for Mitaka
>>
>> On 01/07/2016 03:32 PM, Moshe Levi wrote:
>>> How can we contribute the above changes Ubuntu networking-mlnx
>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/networking-mlnx ?
>>
>> You can't contribute to Ubuntu directly. All has to be done in Debian first, as
>> per what they wrote on their wiki (I can't find the link but I read that...).
> Yes I know my mistake. 
>>
>> I'm currently working on the Mitaka b2 release. When it is released (which is
>> schedule for the 16th, 9 days from now...), there's going to be a new version of
>> Neutron. If Neutron b2 is released with the changes your proposed, then you
>> can tag the networking-mlnx repository as version 8.0.0.0b2, so that we can
>> package it as version 1:8.0.0~b2 in Debian, then it will migrate to Ubuntu.
>>
>> Does this plan suite you?
> Yes, I will tag it once we push all the package changes. 
>>
>> As for contributing to the packaging in Debian, what you should do is join the
>> Alioth OpenStack project [1] after creating a user there, then join the
>> packaging mailing list of that project. I can later on add you as a contributor,
>> and you will have direct Git write access.
> We registered 2 user: 
> moshele-guest - Moshe Levi <moshele at mellanox.com>
> lennyb-guest -  Lenny Verkhovsky <lennyb at mellanox.com>
> can you give us permissions?

Done. You're added to the PKG OpenStack group.

It is a real pleasure to see upstream getting involved. I wish other
vendors were doing the same.

Thomas Goirand (zigo)