Ben: Regular and well-timed updates with reduced exposure to security issues sounds great to me.
Email announcements every three weeks would probably be good for a while, just to get us used to the idea that these updates are indeed happening. After a few months, ask the list again if the emails continue to be valuable or of they are getting annoying. As far as the level of detail goes, I think it's fantastic, but don't know how much work goes into collecting the information on what changes between releases. Even if I don't study all of the specific updates that go into each updated AMI, there's a sense of comfort knowing that the changes are tracked and available. -- Eric Hammond On 10/03/2012 01:59 PM, Ben Howard wrote: > Over this last cycle I have been putting a bit of thought into the > Ubuntu Cloud Images build, daily promotion and release process. Of > concern is making sure that the Ubuntu Cloud Images are of the quality > and performance that our users both expect and demand. > > At UDS [1,2] this October, I am going to propose a change in the way > that Ubuntu Cloud Image stable releases are generated and released [3]. > Specifically of interest to this audience, I am going to propose that we > move from the ad-hoc release cadence -- where a release is need-based > -- to an automatic release schedule based on the availability of > security and boot critical packages that normally require a reboot upon > updating[4]. For most stable released Ubuntu versions, a new version of > the cloud images would be made available every three weeks, which > follows the release cadence of the Kernel SRU team (or ~18 releases per > stable release per year). The biggest motivation for proposing this > change is to reduce the number of updates upon boot and to make sure > that the stable release images are up-to-date. > > One side effect to having an automatic release process is that the email > announcements of new cloud images will need to change in both content > and frequency. Are these emails valuable, is the content sufficient or > too much or if we released automatically every three weeks, would it be > better to discontinue the emails? Or would it be sufficient to capture > this information on a webpage? > > Before UDS, I wanted to gather feedback from our valued community; any > feedback, concerns or questions about this proposal would be most > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ben > > [1] http://uds.ubuntu.com/ > [2] UDS is from 29 October to 01 November 2012 > [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-cloudtesting > [4] i.e. kernel, glibc, security updates > > -- Ubuntu-cloud mailing list Ubuntu-cloud@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud