Le 2013-01-10 à 19:03, Paul Hoadley <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi Pascal,
> 
> On 11/01/2013, at 1:40 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if we should build a public AMI (template) on Amazon EC2 
>> that would contains:
>> 
>> - CentOS 6.x
>> - The Yum repository for wotaskd/Monitor/the adaptor
>> - RPMForge Yum repository (useful to install software not available from the 
>> main CentOS repo)
>> - Postgresql's Yum repository
>> - Jenkins's Yum repository
> 
> I would suggest that you don't invest the time doing this, and here's why.  
> Freezing an AMI like this involves a load of arbitrary decisions (e.g., Why 
> CentOS instead of Amazon Linux?  Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL?).

That's why I'm adding the Yum repository, but not actually installing 
PostgreSQL. 

>  At each decision, you're carving off a segment of potential users from a 
> base that must already be incredibly small.  Say there's still some interest 
> left, though—who is going to keep this current?  When a security 
> vulnerability is patched in CentOS, are you going to re-roll this?

From my point of view, everyone should take care of security updates. Like you 
said, keeping the AMI up to date for everyone update would be a mess. The AMI 
should only be updated for major SSH or Apache, or when CentOS goes from 6.3 to 
6.4 or any major update like this.

>  (All these questions are rhetorical, by the way!)  The most likely scenario 
> is that in 18 months we've got a repeat of WOlastic on our hands—when that 
> went stale, it took time and effort to kill off, and I haven't checked lately 
> but I think the AMI itself is _still_ available, though the website is dead.

If we do it, it will be bonded to WOCommunity, I don't want something bonded to 
a business that might go away.

But anyway, the goal is to make it easier to deploy apps. At least with the Yum 
repository of WOCommunity, it will be much easier.

> Having said all that, if I haven't discouraged you and you're really keen, I 
> can certainly help you do it.  :-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Hoadley
> http://logicsquad.net/
> 
> 


 _______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Webobjects-dev mailing list      ([email protected])
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

This email sent to [email protected]

Reply via email to