I would like to publish new release of OSv. The last official one was 0.24 and published on Oct 30, 2015 (a little over 2 years). I have never released OSv so any input and suggestions are very welcome especially from those that did it in the past.
There is an existing wiki page that documents how to publish new release - https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/wiki/OSv-Release-Procedure. However I think most of the steps do not apply anymore. I think I should follow standard Github release procedure - https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/. I would also like to take advantage of ability to upload binaries associated with the release. My plan is to build and attach "osv.loader" (aka usr.img) and "osv.bootstrap" mpm file and then let users use mikelangelo capstan in order to build new app packages. The trick is to build it using same or similar tool chain as other capstan packages are built. I am planning to use same or similar docker file as here - https://github.com/mikelangelo-project/capstan-packages in order to avoid any incompatibility issues as described here - https://www.mikelangelo-project.eu/2017/08/the-art-of-preparing-osv-packages/. I think it is important to use same host system (ubuntu 14), specific gcc and possibly specific version of other artifacts to make sure usr.img is compatible. My goal is to make it easier for OSv newcomers to try OSv. I also want to focus on promoting OSv as a deployment platform for stateless services. Therefore I would like to make it easy to build images using runtimes like JVM, node.js, erlang, python, ruby and eventually golang. I would be also nice to make it easy to try apps like redis, nginx, etc. Some outstanding questions: - What should be new release version - 0.50, 0.75? - What should be the release notes? I think it would be worth to at least list major new features added since last release. Suggestions? Concerns? Waldek -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSv Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osv-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
