On 20/01/2026 22.50, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 04:42:38PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
Hi Marc-André,
I haven't seen discussion about the project ideas you posted, so I'll
try to kick it off here for the mkosi idea here.
Thomas: Would you like to co-mentor the following project with
Marc-André? Also, do you have any concerns about the project idea from
the maintainer perspective?
The idea of being able to build test images is very attractive,
however, actual deployment of any impl will run into the same
constraint we've always had. If we host disk images, then we
have the responsibility to host the complete & corresponding
source. This is a significant undertaking that we've never been
wished to take on. IMHO publishing images in GitLab CI won't
satisfy the license requireemnts.
I agree, and I think if we go ahead with this project, we should not use the
gitlab-CI to build and provide these images. It would be better to build the
images on the host that runs "make check", similar to the precaching for
assets that we currently do. The built images could then be stored in the
local asset cache so you don't have to rebuild them again the next time your
run "make check". Does that sound practicable to you?
Thomas
