Hi,
At DebConf13, we had a great rollicking discussion about public clouds and official Debian image status, prompted by a few slides by me but the discussion was the best part. Here are some notes from the discussion.
- Zack: might need a cloud release team to decide what goes into cloud
images and bridge release cycle differences
- folks linked to Amazon/OpenStack/Google:
- Cloud is just a new “architecture” for Debian to support
- Maybe put tools for all clouds in a unified cloud image
- Security lockdowns are important for cloud, or possibly everyone
- Some people like “Official Debian” trust
- Lucas: official images should use Debian practices e.g. Alioth not
Github, packages in main, and may not be necessary for Google
- Zack and me: 'main' might not have to mean stable, and could include
e.g. backports from unstable
- almost everyone: “Debian Inspired” images with proprietary code, etc
a “slippery slope", don't do this
Thanks to my colleague David for writing this up a day or two later -
I've adapted these from his. They weren't written during the talk so
I'm sure things got left out.
There's also full video online from the video team. Here's one version:
Lucas gave me some thoughts privately when I sent this to him a while back, but I'll leave it to him to repost his thoughts publicly.
I just published the slides to Penta, but since Penta's attachment export for the anonymous view is broken and they're only ~120K, I'm attaching them to this email as well. If you redistribute the slides, it would make Google happiest if you include a link to the video so that everyone reading then has all the context easily available to them. Please pardon the few visual glitches that occurred during export to PDF format.
- Jimmy