On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:35 AM, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap at citrix.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream > > development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a > > long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The > > latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is > > pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released, > > it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released > > upstream. > > > > So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of libvirt > > for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of > > libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The > > goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been > > released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it. > > > > If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started? > > > > 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. > > +1 for me to have Jiri added to Virt SIG > > 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? > > -George Jiri welcome aboard :-) Please add yourself and your project to https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization To get more info about the build system please read: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CommunityBuildSystem CentOS provides a jenkins instance running at https://ci.centos.org/ for testing your builds. Feel free ask here if you have any question. -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20161221/f73e635b/attachment-0004.html>