[Ovirt-devel] oVirt Node Fedora Feature Status

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 08/08/2011 10:52 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 07/30/2011 10:16 AM, Perry Myers wrote:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ovirt_Node_Spin
> Wanted to give an update on this.
>
> As mentioned earlier, we have approval from QE and Design teams.  In the
> absence of the Spin SIG being able to grant an approval, this was passed
> to release engineering who reviewed the spin.
>
> Unfortunately, based upon the current release engineering rules (which
> are heavily oriented towards Desktop usage and not Server usage) oVirt
> Node really can't be accepted as is into Fedora as an official Spin.
>
> Details are here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4864
>
> Basically in order to get this accepted by releng it looks like we'd
> have to make so many fundamental changes to what oVirt Node is, that it
> wouldn't be worth it in terms of leveraging the Fedora community for
> visibility and testing.  (For example, we already had to remove our
> blacklisting which increased image size from ~150MB to ~250MB)
>
> I think a more reasonable plan would be to focus on oVirt Node as a
> derivative distribution that is focused on virtualization deployment.
> We can absolutely highlight that oVirt Node is built on Fedora and
> leverages the great work that the Fedora team/community has done, but it
> should be considered a separate distribution that is more closely
> associated with the oVirt brand/project umbrella.
>
>  From that perspective, we would build oVirt Node ISOs in parallel with
> Fedora releases and host them directly with ovirt.org site.  And we'd
> only need one variant (the one with blacklisting enabled).
You can do this fairly easily via a Fedora Remix.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix

Note that Fedora remixes don't have to include the "Fedora Remix" name - 
you can essentially call it whatever you'd like.

-robyn
> This should be community decision, not unilateral, so I'd like other
> people's thoughts on this.
>
> Chime in :)
>
> Perry