2011/2/17 Jim Curry <[email protected]>: > By defining an unbreakable reference platform, are we necessarily limiting > its ability to integrate on other platforms? That is my underlying question. > I understand the need for a reference platform but am trying to understand > to what extent that results in us not being able to easily support other > platforms (or not).
Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying. I don't think this limits us in that respect at all. I don't think we've ever rejected patches that would allow us to run on other platforms (and I can't imagine we ever would). That said, Ubuntu offers a very up-to-date selection of software that we can build upon. Not being limited by a static, out-of-date set of dependencies is very much the reason we can move forward at the pace that we do. Other distros might not have all the dependencies we need. Yet, at least. It's possible they will in their next release. If we take the example from my previous e-mail in this thread.. There was a race condition that was caused by a bug in Eventlet. There were two[1] ways to fix it: 1) Fix it in Eventlet or 2) accept Eventlet's brokenness and attempt to work around it. Once the problem was identified and I was at a point where I knew I had to make that decision, option 1) took probably about an hour or so, includiing filing the bug with eventlet, providing them with a test case, writing a patch, uploading it to Ubuntu, and backporting it to multiple version of Ubuntu in our PPA's. It's not entirely inconceivable that I'd still be working on option 2 right now (we rely pretty heavily on Eventlet). If someone wants to put Nova into some other distribution they "just" need to make sure that the eventlet in said distro has this patch applied. [1]: Well, there's a third: Monkey patch eventlet. I'm just afraid I'd be caught in an infinite loop of irony. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
