I do believe we had reached a consensus on a market place needing to be external to the project, but If someone wanted to make connectors/plug-ins for integration with an existing service, that would be ok.
I'm pretty certain it had to do with legalities/logistics of the project being attached to something that could not be effectively controlled withing the scope of our project and presented too many liabilities. Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since the discussion. -Kelcey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Childers" <chip.child...@sungard.com> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:14:20 AM Subject: Re: Free template repository or marketplace On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:26:12AM +0200, France wrote: > Hi all, > > during recent problems creating my own Ubuntu 12.04 LTS PV template > to work on CS 4.1.1. with XS 6.0.2, i got the idea, that it would be > nice, if i could share my templates with the world. I would also > like to get new ones for free. So before i go and create my own > public free template repository, (because i could not find one), i > would like to ask, does Cloudstack have some sort of marketplace in > plans? If so, what's the deadline and are templates going to be free > of charge? > > Regards, > F. > There was talk about doing something like this, perhaps in conjunction with the OpenNebula project. However, that was quite some time ago and nothing (that I'm aware of) has moved forward with it. One of the downstream projects, CloudSand, is working on making some basic OS templates available (along with some CloudStack-in-a-box templates). http://www.cloudsand.com/content/ Ilya is the one running this project. Perhaps you two could collaborate? I'm sure that creating useful OS templates is something that everyone would find valuable! -chip
