Re: More frequent Fedora Cloud updates

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:21 PM, Joe Doss <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> My name is Joe Doss and I want to help the Fedora Cloud SIG bring more
> frequent tested releases of Fedora Cloud it's user base. The goal of this
> project is to provide more frequent updates of Fedora Cloud to users on a
> set cadence or on a case per case basis for major security events.
>
> One major pain point that Fedora Cloud currently faces is the fact that once
> a new Fedora release comes out, the cloud images are no longer updated over
> time. This brings a poor user experience if bugs that are fixed later on in
> the current release cycle but are painful on the first boot of a Fedora
> Cloud instance until the user updates the instance.

That's not entirely true, the cloud images are updated for major
security events. They are also built every day [1]. The issue is to
date there's not been a proper process in which they're
updated/communicated etc. Over all I welcome what you generally
propose.

> I reached out to Dusty Mabe and he agreed to mentor me on this project along
> with help from Kellin and Mohan.
>
> The current ideas on the table for bringing this project to light are:
>
> * Standardize and improve Fedora Cloud tests
> * Create a Fedora Cloud test day for these updates to help improve tests
> * Set a release cadence policy post Fedora Release
> * Set a security update policy for major security updates
>
> We will create issues under pagure.io/cloud-sig and try to get this project
> rolling by Fedora 30 at the latest. Any comments or suggestions on this
> topic are very welcome.

[1] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/cloud/
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