[Container-tools] Atomic App / Nulecule Spec Readiness for 1.0.0: we still have some work to do

[Tomas Kral]

On 03/08/2016 12:36 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> 
> 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?

I can see benefits of tailoring our solution to Kubernetes/OpenShift.
But I'm also afraid that in this case we might end up with something
only slightly different than OpenShift templates.



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