[node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabian Deutsch" <fabiand at redhat.com>
> To: "Barak Azulay" <bazulay at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>, arch at ovirt.org, "Douglas Landgraf" <dlandgra at redhat.com>, "node-devel"
> <node-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 2:21:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node
> 
> Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 06:19 -0400 schrieb Barak Azulay:
> > > Had you created your tiny distribution based on busybox, libvirt,
> > vdsm etc...
> > > cross compile all from sources, then you would have been right, as
> > it is our
> > > own distribution that fully controlled by the ovirt community.
> > 
> > If a user need to customize the hypervisor he can use a regular OS of
> > his choice configured and tailored to his needs (Fedora ...,
> > CentOS ...Debian, Gentoo ...)
> > This is a valid use case and effort for the community.
> > 
> > While having a black box hypervisor, should be the exact fit to just
> > run VMs in oVirt environment.
> > Why to handle specific OS configuration in a much more complex and
> > less intuitive environment to manage ?
> > 
> > Guys I really think this entirely misses the black-box approach.
> > 
> > I don't mind moving to our own tiny distro as long as it's a single
> > image to release and maintain
> 
> Well, Node _is_ actually a tiny distro, just based on some package based
> on some existing one.

I do not think that it is tiny distro... but let's not get into this argument :)

> 
> > The effort of maintaining multiple ovirt-nodes based on distro and
> > distro-version and ovirt-version creates an unmanageable test matrix
> > that all the community might loose from
> 
> I partially agree here.
> From my POV the Fedora based Node is very useful for us to develop Node,
> sooner or later the changes we've got in Fedora will land in CentOS,
> thus devleoping on Fedora is a preparation for being able to deliver a
> (stable) CentOS based Node.
> 
> So IMO we should continue to develop on Fedora, but we might want to
> consider to keep to only deliver the CentOS based Node.
> The Fedora based build could be seen as nightlies.

If we consider single base distribution (aka blackbox which is not black at all...), and you agree that centos is a fit, I do not see any reason to invest resources in fedora.

> 
> - fabian
>