Re: Timeline for official Debian cloud images for the Stretch release

[Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:

> I am still puzzled where this requirement comes from.  Can you clarify who
> is "we" ?

This most likely includes the teams listed above, the DPL, and the
attendees of the respective BoF at DC15.


> Can you also explain in more details what the problem is, and how your
> requirements solve the problem ?

"How can Debian ensure that cloud images a user might use are proper Debian?"


> Latly, who are the decision makers, shouldn't it be the ones who does the work
> ?  If the "CD team" has not been producing cloud images in the past, why is it
> getting suddenly such a central role ?

This is well documented in the archive of this list and in the
recording of the BoF.
As the archives are quite a bit to read, the short version is that the
trademark team asked the cd team if they would be willing to become a
gatekeeper of sorts.


Richard