On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:46:59PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Would love to do some brainstorming about how we can share more code/ideas in general; I had some specific comments towards the end.
Thanks for bringing this up, Colin. I appreciate the work-together effort in
particular. In the github issue you note:
And now here's the thing - all of the current image-building
tools in the Fedora ecosystem (ImageFactory, virt-install,
and lorax-composer/LMC) end up being wrappers around running
Anaconda in a VM.
... and I want to comment a bit on how we got there. Specifically, we
previously had, like, half-a-dozen different ways to create an OS image,
ranging from shells scripts wrapping yum to more complicated packages. We
were using one of these to create the cloud image, and it starting having
all sorts of complicated and weird bugs, and really had no maintainer (just
accumulated hacks from rel-eng).
So, we decided to standardize on _one code path_, and _the thing which has a
dedicated team behind it_.
Now, I appreciate that there is a team behind Ignition too, so things are
different in some respects, but I think the basic part remains: let's make
sure we have long term maintenance in mind whatever decisions are made. And
let's please not have too many different ways of doing the same thing.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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