[Openstack-devel] Which version of OpenStack should we package?

[Loic Dachary]

On 11/27/2011 12:20 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 11/26/2011 08:53 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 26 2011, ghe. rivero wrote:
>>
>>>     with wheezy froze in June, i think that the best target to package
>>> should be essex (2012-1) which will be released in April. But, with wheezy
>>> release 6 months later (February 2013), wheezy will be released with 2
>>> versions behind of openstack. In a so fasting moving environment (3
>>> releases per year), Debian releases every 2 years is a real handicap.
>> I agree with Ghe. We should aim Essex for wheezy.
> I agree with that plan for Wheezy, but it's irrelevant for what I was
> asking for.
>
> What I was asking for was to have Openstack (and in this case, Nova) be
> usable *now*, so we would package only the stable version in SID. I
> believe Essex is a good candidate for Experimental right now, but not
> for SID.
>
> Now, we're stuck with OpenStack unstable being packaged in Debian, with
> no choice but to wait until next April to get something stable, and in
> the mean time, we'll be continuously packaging Essex, which will be a
> moving target with constantly new features. That's really not an idea
> situation for anyone willing to implement Openstack using our Debian
> packaging right now!
Isn't this somewhat mitigated by the fact that openstack currently is not used for anything but to setup test platforms, with significant manual tweaking to get them running ? Maybe you know about people/companies already using it in production or planning to use 2011.3 in production before essex is released. From an outsider perspective this is unclear and it would be great to have your insight on this.

Cheers

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