On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:40:03PM -0500, Andres Rodriguez wrote: > [SUBJECT] > Request an exception to SRU MAAS to both Precise (and its required > dependencies) and Quantal. > > (Added for discussion to the agenda)
Thanks. > [PROBLEM] > MAAS in Precise is obsolete and prevents users from having a full > experience of what MAAS is and brings to the deployment of bare metal with > Juju. > > When MAAS was first developed, as the successor of Orchestra, it heavily > depended on Cobbler to perform the operations it was designed for. The > first release of MAAS (released in Precise) depended on it (Cobbler) as the > 'maas-provision' package. However, due to several concerns about the > maintainship of Cobbler by upstream, as well as some security issues it was > decided that MAAS should drop the usage of Cobbler eventually. Indeed - I've understood this as the plan of record for some time. > When we first filed the MIR for MAAS in Precise, the MIR team review > pointed out various issues. After addressing all but three, we were > granted conditional MIR acceptance. The issues remaining were: > > - Remove Cobbler copy (maas-provision) [1] > - Remove raphael from MAAS source (and use package) [2] > - Remove yui3 from MAAS source (and use package) [2] > > These issues were resolved, and released in Quantal. Quantal MAAS no > longer depends on Cobbler (maas-provision), and it now utilizes the JS > libraries from packages in the archive, rather than shipping them along > with MAAS source. Because the new MAAS release dropped the usage of Cobbler > and introduced new features to replace the latter, it was decided not to > SRU MAAS from Quantal to Precise until MAAS matured, and several of the > possible (and actual) issues were resolved. Throughout the Quantal cycle, > the MAAS team and the Ubuntu Server Team worked together to resolve various > issues and make sure that the user experience is great. I agree with Steve's position on this. > In order for us to ensure that MAAS provides a great user experience, and a > critical bug free software, it is important that we SRU MAAS [3] to both > Quantal and Precise. The SRU involves: With Steve's amendments, I'm happy with this. I'd still welcome comments from others on the board. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board