On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excerpts from Jimmy Kaplowitz's message of 2014-03-27 12:08:50 -0700: > > GCE images are built more than once per release currently, primarily to to > > improve the GCE-specific integration code and CLI tools or adapt to changes > > in the underlying environment and feature set. Occasionally there's > > something else, like the performance-driven backports change Himanshu > > mentioned on this list recently. So the CD frequency is only good as a > > minimum, not a maximum. > > Agreed. For instance the Ubuntu images tend to be updated whenever the > kernel is updated, since that is rather painful to update post-boot. > > > > > That said, the more of the build process that Debian can automate, the > > better. I'd also suggest that careful thought be given to testing; right > > now we have some internal tests that we run for the GCE images, but > > pre-publication testing is a generally useful pattern across all > > environments. > > > > Agreed. I'm sure we'd be happy to donate HP Cloud resources to accept > an upload of a proposed image and make sure it boots / answers to SSH.
Right. And we provided a gratis account to Debian for that purpose. I also want to point you at https://github.com/juergh/dwarf which might be useful for initial/local testing of an OpenStack image. There are Ubuntu packages and I'm currently working on Fedora packaging. Let me know if there's interest in a Debian package. ...Juerg > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
