[Container-tools] Atomic App / Nulecule Spec Readiness for 1.0.0: we still have some work to do
Dusty Mabe
dusty at dustymabe.com
Mon Mar 7 23:36:04 UTC 2016
We met earlier today to discuss the readiness of the Nulecule spec. This was
brought about because we were in motion to release a 1.0.0 release of Atomic App
because we have been in feature freeze/test mode for a while.
Here are some important notes from the meeting:
- We have thusly concentrated on the deployment story and not enough on the
developer story. We need to take a new look at the spec from a developer point
of view.
- We would like to have more "users" attempt to create Apps so we can fully vet
Atomic App and Nulecule Spec before we approach 1.0.0 status.
- We realize that soon we will need to make sure that we support (for some time)
the existing Nulecule spec version that Atomic App supports. We have a short
amount of time before that to change the spec, but even after that point we have
freedom to change the spec as long as we support backwards compat.
- Development of Atomic App isn't tied to the ADB/CDK because Atomic App isn't
baked into the ADB and is delivered via a registry. So we may be more free to
iterate faster than previously thought.
Conclusions:
- We will leave the current versioning scheme in place for now; continue on with
0.4.x, 0.5.x and so on.. Before we make any large changes to versioning we
should also discuss with marketing to make sure we have a good message.
- For the time being we will go back to heavy/fundamental development instead of
just bug-fixing so we can attempt to address the issues with the spec and with
the developer story.
Open Questions:
- Do we need to continue to be generic and support all providers or should we tailor
our solution to Kubernetes/OpenShift?
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