[Openstack-devel] OpenStack on Ubuntu

[Thomas Goirand]

On 12/12/2011 01:18 AM, Martin Gerhard Loschwitz wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I'm Martin Loschwitz (madkiss at debian.org) and I'd like to help with getting
> OpenStack ready for Debian GNU/Linux. I'm interested in a strong cooperation
> with the Ubuntu people as they seem to have packages that are in pretty good 
> shape already, and it might be of benefit for Debian to base the packages 
> for Debian on theirs.

Hi,

This isn't the path that has been taken. Recently, Julien removed the
work that I've made to use the same packages as in Ubuntu:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=openstack/nova.git;a=commitdiff;h=14ece8c1008bf26ed35ab6c0cd4d55fa7612f53c

This makes Debian packaging cleaner, IMHO. But anyway, yes, you can have
a look into Ubuntu's packaging and compare.

> Can you tell me what the current situation is? I'm 
> asking you as you seem to be the driving force behind getting OpenStack into
> Debian.

Well, I only done the work for Cactus. Recently, Ghe, Julien and Loic
have been doing a lot of work on it, and not me. Openstack is now team
maintained. We aim at having Openstack Essex be ready for Wheezy.

I'm currently continuing to work on XCP packaging in Debian. It's
starting to take shape, with Xen 4.1.2-2 that has just reach SID with
new ocaml binary we needed. This will bring a nice Xen support for
Openstack in Debian.

If you want to help, you can join the Alioth project:

http://alioth.debian.org/projects/openstack/

We maintain all the packaging in Git. What do you want to work on exactly?

Thomas