On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:20:52AM -0500, Jared K. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As I was going through some email this morning I saw that the Spins > > SIG is concerned that the Cloud SIG hasn't followed the Spins process > > to get their "ec2" labeled Spin included in the spins-kickstart > > collection in git: > > I've talked to Dennis about this already, and this was simply a > miscommunication on his part. > > As we're moving towards having Koji generate the release images for > EC2, he needed a place to store the EC2 kickstart file so that it was > public and being tracked in revision control, and so that Koji could > pull the kickstart file when it generated the images. As I understand > it (and I'm sure Dennis will correct me if I'm wrong), Koji can either > pull from packages.fedoraproject.org or from the spins git repo. So, > to make a long story short, Dennis put the EC2 kickstart file in the > spins git repo out of convenience. He wasn't trying to say that EC2 > was a spin. > > I've got to admit that I never saw the EC2 images as being a spin per > se, but that's certainly a discussion we can have going forward. As I > re-read through the Spins guidelines, it's still not clear to me how > this would even qualify as a spin -- it's really a different animal > than our traditional spins. At the same time, I think it needs a lot > of the same process for review, oversight, and QA that we currently > have in place for spins, so there might be some ability to roll the > cloud images into the spins concept. I'm certainly open to comments > and suggestions either way. OK, thanks for this explanation. At the time it wasn't clear why the kickstart file was coming to the spins-kickstart repo. If there was a need for it to be there, then I wanted to see the teams involved get into a conversation about it. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
