[CentOS-devel] [Cloud SIG] CloudStack publishing effort in CentOS

[Rich Bowen]

Rohit, 'rohit' and 'daan' have been officially added to the Cloud SIG 
membership as of yesterday. Sorry for the delay. We look forward to 
Cloudstack's participation!

--Rich

On 02/08/2018 05:38 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Thanks for replying. Yes, I've reached out to the chair and others and 
> also also introduced ourselves at the #RDO meeting yesterday.
> 
> I've created a CentOS account and applied for the sig-cloud group as 
> advised [1] on the meeting.
> My account id is 'rohit' with the email 'rohit at yadav.cloud'.
> 
> As next steps, we'll wait to be advised and hear about the Cloud SIG 
> effort being resumed.
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide#head-2e2e639e9d3d1feb0c7aba15213a909fccbae2f3.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:41 PM, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org 
> <mailto:arrfab at centos.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 04/02/18 10:27, Rohit Yadav wrote:
>      > 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/
>     <https://cloudstack.apache.org/> <https://cloudstack.apache.org/
>     <https://cloudstack.apache.org/>>
>      > [2] https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud
>     <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud>
>      > <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud
>     <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Cloud>>
>      > [3] packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream
>     <http://packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream>
>      > <http://packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream
>     <http://packages.shapeblue.com/cloudstack/upstream>>
>     > [4] CloudStack packaging, spec files
>     > etc: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/packaging
>     <https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/master/packaging>
>     >
>     >
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     That's good news, so to answer all your questions, the best would
>     probably be to follow the SIGGuide (https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide
>     <https://wiki.centos.org/SIGGuide>)
>     and then sync up with the SIG Chair (Rich, but it seems you already
>     discussed with him)
> 
>     Welcome !
> 
>     --
>     Fabian Arrotin
>     The CentOS Project | https://www.centos.org
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