Dear release team, since today, we have Eucalyptus in the archive, which is a Free clone of the Amazon Web Services for computing and storage. Stefano wants to tag Squeeze as "cloud ready", and, frankly, for the very exact moment nobody really knows what this is supposed to mean.
The bottleneck for the selection of Debian as a cloud OS (at least for the AWS clouds) is the offering of some certified kernel and root images, from which one then jumps into "the rest" of Squeeze. Amazon restricts that, with Eucalyptus there is no such restriction, in principle. But every cloud provider will need to do just a bit of work to get the latest Debian release into an EMI that could then be run. So Debian is cloud ready already with the advent of Eucalyptus in sid. But there is more to it, like the synchronisation of releases with cloud images. We are preparing for such an automated synchronisation, but how much of that is automated and how that is triggered, we don't really know for the moment. Also we don't know if we need to plan for any mirroring or if we can start with a single site to offer immediately cloudifiable images. The fo...@eucalyptus are very busy with getting some new release out these days. Once this gets better, we would like to discuss together with you about what we would need to do to make your team happy when you see Debian "Squeeze" images offered. "Happy" I expect to mean that you rest assured that security updates get in, that no wrong compromises have been done to the kernel, that ... well, to gather such expectations is really what we need to do. Upstream is very open towards Debian, actually an official partnership is considered by both sides, all postponed a bit until the situation at Eucalyptus becomes less stressful again. We have Daniel already accepted as a DM, Chris and Kyo are expected to come, too. I expect Chris and Daniel to be the ones to be working the closest with you on a technical level while for organisatorial bits there may also be Shashi. I hope you share the joys of Eucalyptus' advent in Debian as much as we do. With my Debian Med hat on I see the beginning of a collaboration not only on the packages themsleves, but also on the preparation of complete environments to actually do work with those tools. This will give our society a very different touch, we are likely to become even more of a "knowledge collector" than we already are today. With all modesty, I don't see how any commercial Linux distro could compete with that (except for founding Fedora or OpenSuSE, possibly). So, the clouds together with the community behind the Blends may be really exploiting the advantages of the large number of packages that Debian offers. I'll postpone an email to debian-devel for a week or two until the workload at Eucalyptus allows upstream to join the thread on that more public list. Best regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c004e29.5040...@gmx.de