On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Sam Kottler <s@shk.io> wrote:
>
> During the cloud instance SIG meeting today we talked about future plans
> for cloud-init in CentOS. Right now cloud-init is included as part of
> EPEL and that's where most CentOS users consume it from. The problem is
> that cloud-init and related bits are critical for building images to run
> on a public or private cloud, and we need to build early guest
> initialization tools into the cloud images we produce. Ideally this does
> not include adding EPEL or packages from EPEL which have not been
> rebuilt in our build systems.
>
> So, the proposal that there's general consensus upon within the SIG is
> to maintain cloud-init, its dependencies, and any related packages on
> git.centos.org and rebuild them ourselves. I'm one of the maintainers in
> EPEL so I offered to maintain the git repos for CentOS, anyone else who
> would like to be involved in more than welcome to step up.