[Libguestfs] Plan for libguestfs 1.30

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:22:27 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
> > stable release of libguestfs.  So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
> > soon.
> > 
> > Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
> > be addressed for 1.30.
> 
> I propose to have virt-dib included. The newer review request was published 
> few days ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00105.html
> 
> virt-dib is an alternative engine for running diskimage-builder elements. 
> It allows to run them in a more secure way, providing isolation from the host 
> environment.
> 
> I didn't test the last revision, but I helped testing images generated with 
> the first versions; both plain images and more complex ones, like the images 
> used by OpenStack Sahara (few combination of operating systems and Hadoop 
> versions).
> Few small errors can pop up of course with more testing, but I think that the 
> structure is fine. I can't comment on the code, though.

While I agree we should get this, what's the different between it
going into the supposedly stable 1.30 at the last second, versus 1.31?

Rich.

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