Intriguing. Looks like Airflow is using GHCR pretty extensively alongside their 
GHA-based CI. It does make good sense to me to advertise an image alongside the 
repo as a Quickstart that contains all the dependencies necessary to build the 
software. Not the most urgent thing, but I’ll add it to the list :)

Adam

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> FYI: while GH Releases is discouraged for any apache repo, GHCR is apparently 
> acceptable. So perhaps this is an option for your containers?
> 
>       https://github.com/apache/yetus/pkgs/container/yetus
>       https://github.com/apache/yetus/pkgs/container/yetus-base
> 
> reference:
> 
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/66hhhn2t3mx7mg2j9ls4656ngl7j3n0h
> 
> HTH,
> Joan
> 
> On 17/11/2021 08:31, Adam Kocoloski wrote:
>>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 12:22 AM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Do we really think these apps are going to have a lot of churn and need a 
>>>>> lot of releases?
>>>> 
>>>> I could see `erlfdb` needing a regular release cadence, but I’m willing to 
>>>> see what can be done to comply with the ASF regulations in a 
>>>> semi-automated way. The other repos we’ve been discussing are somewhat 
>>>> more stable, although part of the motivation for publishing packages is to 
>>>> drive more interest in them and that could lead to more releases.
>>>> 
>>>> Tangentially-related question for you: one of the CI jobs for erlfdb is 
>>>> using a container image built from this Dockerfile:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb-erlfdb/blob/main/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
>>>> 
>>>> Should I publish that image as a tag in apache/couchdbci-debian, even 
>>>> though it’s basically a completely different build than the other images 
>>>> in there? Creating a whole new e.g. apache/erlfdbci repo for it seems like 
>>>> overkill, but I’m curious to hear your thoughts. Would something like this 
>>>> work?
>>>> 
>>>>    apache/couchdbci-debian:erlfdb-erlang-24.1.4-fdb-6.3.18
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I guess you can't merge it with the other images directly?
>>> 
>>> No objection to using the tagging approach you outline above, of course.
>>> But looking at other image names in the apache Docker Hub org, I think
>>> Infra would readily approve another name if you need it.
>>> 
>>> -Joan
>> I think maybe I could use those existing images? I vaguely recall when I was 
>> first building a .devcontainer configuration for CouchDB I tried to start 
>> from the images in couchdbdev and ran into an issue I couldn’t sort out. I 
>> think it had something to do with the interaction with the erlang_ls plugin 
>> for VS Code. But I could take another pass at that at some point. There are 
>> a couple of notable differences in the erlfdb image:
>> - FDB server is not installed, instead CI configures FDB to run alongside in 
>> a service container
>> - Image contains a shallow clone of the FDB source code since that’s where 
>> the binding tests are defined
>> - No extra CouchDB dependencies, e.g. Node, Elixir, SpiderMonkey … probably 
>> leads to faster build times
>> I do quite like the idea that the .devcontainer and the CI image used for 
>> that part of the erlfdb test suite are identical, it just cuts off a whole 
>> branch of debugging questions. I’ll go ahead and use a tag like the one 
>> above for now, and if erlfdb or other Erlang apps start proliferating we can 
>> see about another Docker repository. Thanks,
>> Adam

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