9:22 a.m.
It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
stable release of libguestfs. So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
soon.
Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
be addressed for 1.30.
As usual, bugs which have "1.30" (without quotes) in the Devel
Whiteboard field in Bugzilla are nominated as blockers for the
release. You can see a list of those here [currently empty]:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASS...
For a list of all bugs, go to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=...
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It's also worth talking about what I'd like to do *after* 1.30 is out.
This includes:
- threading support
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/thread.html#00118
- external tests
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-October/thread.html#00042
While thread safety is oft talked about, it's external tests which I
consider to be the more important patch series, since it will allow us
to build and test libguestfs more easily and more comprehensively for
Fedora and RHEL. Unfortunately it's the most difficult and invasive
change of the two.
You may have your own ideas, if so follow up here.
Rich.
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9:49 a.m.
On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:22:27 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
stable release of libguestfs. So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
soon.
Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
be addressed for 1.30.
I propose to have virt-dib included. The newer review request was published
few days ago:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00105.html
virt-dib is an alternative engine for running diskimage-builder elements.
It allows to run them in a more secure way, providing isolation from the host
environment.
I didn't test the last revision, but I helped testing images generated with
the first versions; both plain images and more complex ones, like the images
used by OpenStack Sahara (few combination of operating systems and Hadoop
versions).
Few small errors can pop up of course with more testing, but I think that the
structure is fine. I can't comment on the code, though.
Ciao
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9:58 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:22:27 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
> stable release of libguestfs. So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
> soon.
>
> Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
> be addressed for 1.30.
I propose to have virt-dib included. The newer review request was published
few days ago:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00105.html
virt-dib is an alternative engine for running diskimage-builder elements.
It allows to run them in a more secure way, providing isolation from the host
environment.
I didn't test the last revision, but I helped testing images generated with
the first versions; both plain images and more complex ones, like the images
used by OpenStack Sahara (few combination of operating systems and Hadoop
versions).
Few small errors can pop up of course with more testing, but I think that the
structure is fine. I can't comment on the code, though.
While I agree we should get this, what's the different between it
going into the supposedly stable 1.30 at the last second, versus 1.31?
Rich.
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10:21 a.m.
On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:58:54 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 of June 2015 15:22:27 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
> > stable release of libguestfs. So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
> > soon.
> >
> > Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
> > be addressed for 1.30.
>
> I propose to have virt-dib included. The newer review request was
> published
> few days ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-June/msg00105.html
>
> virt-dib is an alternative engine for running diskimage-builder elements.
> It allows to run them in a more secure way, providing isolation from the
> host environment.
>
> I didn't test the last revision, but I helped testing images generated
> with
> the first versions; both plain images and more complex ones, like the
> images used by OpenStack Sahara (few combination of operating systems and
> Hadoop versions).
> Few small errors can pop up of course with more testing, but I think that
> the structure is fine. I can't comment on the code, though.
While I agree we should get this, what's the different between it
going into the supposedly stable 1.30 at the last second, versus 1.31?
If the interval between 1.30 and 1.32 is going to be the same, it is likely
that 1.32 would miss the next Ubuntu LTS. Given that the OpenStack
infrastructure relies and uses Ubuntu a lot, it would be easier to suggest its
usage and testing if it's also included there.
And also, there is this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218766
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10:01 a.m.
Hi,
In data martedì 30 giugno 2015 15:22:27, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
It has been a ludicrously long time (over 8 months) since the last
stable release of libguestfs. So I'd like to plan a new 1.30 release
soon.
Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
be addressed for 1.30.
Not a comprehensive list, but I have in mind the following:
(a) rh#1089100 - aka SELinux relabel API
There was work on this some months ago, although with some doubts on
the API.
This is something I'd like, as I'm seeing my colleagues facing SELinux
label issues when using virt-builder/virt-customize on Fedora guests.
(b) rh#1102241 - aka OSTree support
I did work on it the past, but there are still issues in the way the
trees in each image could be represented without breaking current API
users & CLI clients.
This could seem somehow important, as Atomic stuff is being used more.
(c) virt-dib
This is a mostly-ready replacement for diskimage-builder's
disk-image-create (and ramdisk-image-create), using libguestfs to do
almost all the operations (and thus more secure than fiddling with sudo,
losetup, kpartx, etc on the host).
This could improve the way images in OpenStack world are generated,
without the need to retoolchain everything.
(d) possibly rh#1203898 - aka fstab-less systems
(e) possibly rh#1113153 - aka systemd moint points
Thanks,
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4:58 p.m.
New subject: Plan for libguestfs 1.32
Libguestfs 1.30 was released on 2015-07-21 and because of my wish to
rebase libguestfs in RHEL 7.3, I'd like to release 1.32 in early
December.
Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
be addressed for 1.32.
As usual, bugs which have "1.32" (without quotes) in the Devel
Whiteboard field in Bugzilla are nominated as blockers for the
release. You can see a list of those here (currently empty):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASS...
For a list of all bugs, go to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=...
Rich.
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4:05 p.m.
New subject: Plan for libguestfs 1.32
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:58:58PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
Libguestfs 1.30 was released on 2015-07-21 and because of my wish to
rebase libguestfs in RHEL 7.3, I'd like to release 1.32 in early
December.
Please follow-up if there are features / blockers / bugs that need to
be addressed for 1.32.
As usual, bugs which have "1.32" (without quotes) in the Devel
Whiteboard field in Bugzilla are nominated as blockers for the
release. You can see a list of those here (currently empty):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASS...
For a list of all bugs, go to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=...
Just a reminder, because now I'm back from holiday I'm planning to do
the release this week.
Rich.
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