FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-08-13

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Wed Sep 10 12:25:45 UTC 2008


Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 01:39:30 am Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:14 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>>> * FESCo approved the following feature for F10:
>>>       * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ApplianceTools
>> I just noticed and read this a little closer... and looked a the meeting
>> minutes which were... sparse.
>>
>> This feature involves Fedora actually producing and distributing
>> something we've never done before, a tarred image for use in a virtual
>> machine.  That's not your typical "spin" which is an iso format to be
>> consumed by booting it on hardware, real or fake.  Was any thought or
>> discussion at all put into the implications of this?  Was releng
>> consulted about our ability to produce/test this during development
>> cycles, particularly Beta?  Do we have any thought as to how this would
>> be advertised to users, and any documentation about how to use it as
>> well?
>>
>> Could FESCo maybe take another gander at this feature page and comment
>> on some of the above issues?
> I messed up here I missed "Requires hosting a binary image on 
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/" from what I remembered it was providing tools 
> to create appliances.  not us actually providing appliance images.  since 
> appliances are specialised configured things its really hard to provide a 
> single appliance.   I personally have no issue with hosting appliance 
> kickstart files.  but i think we need to review hosting a binary appliance 
> image
Dennis:

In this case the "appliance" is a running system with the bare number of 
packages. It is just delivered as a raw disk as opposed to an ISO. 
Again, I will make sure to be online for the meeting so we can discuss.

-- bk




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