[Libguestfs] Plan for libguestfs 1.30

[Luigi Toscano]

On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:58:54 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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?

If the interval between 1.30 and 1.32 is going to be the same, it is likely 
that 1.32 would miss the next Ubuntu LTS. Given that the OpenStack 
infrastructure relies and uses Ubuntu a lot, it would be easier to suggest its 
usage and testing if it's also included there.

And also, there is this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218766

Ciao
-- 
Luigi