Hi all, (/cc cloudstack-dev)
I'm Rohit Yadav, committer/pmc from the Apache CloudStack [1] community. Apache CloudStack is an IaaS cloud computing platform.
I've been maintaining and publishing the CloudStack noredist repos [3][4] for few years now, and I would like to get them published to the official CentOS (and other distros) repositories.
I met Rich during Fosdem yesterday and he suggested to reach out to the cloud-sig/list [2] to discuss how we can get CloudStack rpms into CentOS. I understand in the past we were not very successful at that, but I want to make a second attempt especially since we've introduced the concept of LTS releases in CloudStack.
I'm not sure if the devel list is the right place or if an explicit cloud-sig list exists [2], so please advise -- - Where may I start? - What is the packaging/release process and how can one help become a package maintainer? - Advise on legal stuff around publishing of rpms (the noredist repositories bundle non-oss jar dependencies such as those from Vmware vim sdk etc)? - How can the packages also be available for Fedora, may RHEL and derivatives? -
Thoughts, comments? Thanks.
Regards.
[1] https://cloudstack.apache.org/ [2] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud [3] packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream [4] CloudStack packaging, spec files etc: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/packaging