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 > > Jirka > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- 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/20161206/f05bdf8c/attachment-0006.html>