[node-devel] Versioning of oVirt Node

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 07:57 -0400 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev:
> > > 
> > > 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 :)

Hehe ;)

> > 
> > > 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.

In the light of man power it makes sense to only support one Node -
(as in delivering releases and providing support) which we currently do.

From the development point of view, we should continue to develop features on Fedora.

- fabian
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