Bug#821460: ITP: salt-formula-ceilometer -- Salt formula for OpenStack Ceilometer

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Filip Pytloun wrote:
> * Package name    : salt-formula-ceilometer
>   Version         : 2016.4.1
>   Upstream Author : tcpcloud <info@tcpcloud.eu>
> * URL             : https://github.com/openstack/salt-formula-ceilometer
> * License         : Apache-2.0
>   Programming Lang: SaltStack
>   Description     : Salt formula for OpenStack Ceilometer
> 
> Ceilometer project aims to deliver a unique point of contact for billing
> systems to acquire all of the measurements they need to establish
> customer billing, across all current OpenStack core components with work
> underway to support future OpenStack components

Do we really want to package salt formulas? That's the first ITP
to cover a salt formula.

IMO salt formulas are very volatile by nature and are not very
useful in Debian packages, the distribution through git repos
works rather well. If you need stability, you pick a commit or
a tag.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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