Mike, Project Kronos is going to be more 'actual' than XCP? Should I migrate from XCP to Kronos?
Regards On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Mike McClurg <[email protected]>wrote: > (Added xen-api list to CC.) > > On 06/12/11 19:57, Enzo Lombardi wrote: > > Is there any nightly build, dev build, morning build of XCP 1.5? > > I saw a message mentioning "end of September", what happened to this > > release? What is the delay and what does the schedule looks like? > > Hi Enzo, > > We had hoped for a September beta at one point, but clearly this hasn't > happened. We're currently aiming for a January alpha release. The delays > have been due to our focus on Project Kronos, where we are porting the > XCP toolstack to run on Debian and Ubuntu. The core XCP team consists of > only two people, and Kronos turned out to be quite a time consuming > project. At the same time, we are still committed to providing the > traditional XCP "appliance", as well as XCP on Debian and Ubuntu. > > The problem with the XCP appliance and it's slow releases is mainly due > to our internal build system. In the past, the XCP team has had to do a > lot of manual work to convert each XenServer release into an XCP > release. Over the last year we have been tweaking our build system, and > parts of our toolstack code, to do this work for us. > > The last bits of this work are almost complete. Once they are complete, > we will be able to start providing regular development snapshots of XCP, > and will be able to provide a more regular release cadence. Until this > work is complete, we don't feel that it would be worthwhile to release > an alpha of XCP 1.5, because we know it will be broken, due to the > incompleteness of our build system and toolstack changes. > > I'm sorry again for the delay to XCP 1.5. We hope that the work we're > doing pays off in that future releases won't be so delayed, and > development snapshots will finally be possible. Thanks for the continued > interest in XCP. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users > -- Carlos Eduardo Tavares Terra Red Hat Certified Engineer Consultor em Infraestrutura de TI GNU/Linux #413291 [http://counter.li.org]
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