<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:35 AM, George Dunlap <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:George.Dunlap@citrix.com" target="_blank">George.Dunlap@citrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><br>
> On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <<a href="mailto:sbonazzo@redhat.com">sbonazzo@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jiri Denemark <<a href="mailto:jdenemar@redhat.com">jdenemar@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
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> I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream<br>
> development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a<br>
> long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The<br>
> latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is<br>
> pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released,<br>
> it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released<br>
> upstream.<br>
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> So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of libvirt<br>
> for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of<br>
> libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The<br>
> goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been<br>
> released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.<br>
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> If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?<br>
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> Sounds good to me, welcome aboard! My only concern is that libvirt is built also for xen so we need to ensure we don't break anything there.<br>
> +1 for me to have Jiri added to Virt SIG<br>
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</span>I would be really glad to have a shared libvirt between oVirt and Xen projects. Are you planning on only building the most recent release, or on maintaining some older releases for some period of time?<br>
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-George</font></span></blockquote></div><br>Jiri welcome aboard :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra">Please add yourself and your project to <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization">https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization</a><br clear="all"><div>To get more info about the build system please read: <a href="https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CommunityBuildSystem">https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CommunityBuildSystem</a></div><div>CentOS provides a jenkins instance running at <a href="https://ci.centos.org/">https://ci.centos.org/</a> for testing your builds.</div><div>Feel free ask here if you have any question.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sandro Bonazzola<br>Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.<br>See how it works at <a href="http://redhat.com" target="_blank">redhat.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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