[CentOS-devel] schedule based updates

Wed May 28 16:04:48 UTC 2014
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 05/28/2014 10:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> hi,
> 
> this is following on from the last Cloud Instance SIG meeting - the idea
> that we should be doing image updates was proposed, but I dont believe
> we decided on a time frequency of these builds.
> 
> We can potentially do nightly builds and push them to ci.dev.centos.org,
> so if people want to really get a nightly snapshot they can.

That sounds good.

> 
> However, for most production requirements it makes sense to have these
> builds refreshed on a pre-determined schedule. Should we then be doing
> these weekly ? monthly ? When there is a major security issue ? Who
> decides its big-enough-an-issue ?

I'd vote for a monthly schedule, plus any time there's a major security
update for something included in the images.

> This would then include container, VMs and cloud instance images.
> 
> - KB
> 

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