On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > since today, we have Eucalyptus in the archive, which > is a Free clone of the Amazon Web Services for computing > and storage. Stefano wants to tag Squeeze as "cloud > ready", and, frankly, for the very exact moment nobody > really knows what this is supposed to mean. Eh, let's not exaggerate with the buzz words :) I just want that users interesting in run Debian on some cloud infrastructure (be it Amazon or Eucalyptus-based) are aware of the fact that they can and that they are supported by Debian in doing so (assuming we can make the needed arrangements with the various involved teams). > So Debian is cloud ready already with > the advent of Eucalyptus in sid. But there is more to > it, like the synchronisation of releases with cloud > images. We are preparing for such an automated > synchronisation, but how much of that is automated > and how that is triggered, we don't really know for > the moment. Also we don't know if we need to plan > for any mirroring or if we can start with a single > site to offer immediately cloudifiable images. I believe this is the most relevant part for -release. AFAIK the pkg-eucalyptus team already has all the software to create on the fly the needed images and kernel/initrds. The point is then which work-flow do you want to synchronize with pkg-eucalyptus so that when a release is updated, their images get updated too (assuming that the extra coordination is not too much of an extra burden for -release). Similar concerns exist for kernel alone and Steffen is getting in touch with the kernel team about that. Thanks to Steffen for raising the topic! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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