Cloud SIG Meeting Minutes - 2010/07/29

[Brian LaMere]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:

> I saw in the meeting log that this will go to 75% complete at the beta.
>  I'd love to see this feature in Fedora 14 as much as everyone else.
> Unfortunately that isn't how the process works.  It needs to be
> significantly done for Alpha--now.  At beta all features need to be 100%
> complete.  Naturally FESCo can grant an exception.
>
> If that is the route you plan it go please file a ticket with FESCo now
> so they can track the details.
>
>
if I might interject my personal experience on the subject and how it
impacts both Fedora and Redhat, the place I work is very pro-Ubuntu, but I
have some fairly serious and growing philosophical issues with Ubuntu, so I
started quietly moving them off and over to Fedora for our local services.
Sshhh, don't tell anyone.  But that said, I can't really recommend
fedora-backed instances to them until Fedora gets somewhat caught-up with
Ubuntu; via Alestic, Ubuntu has had a strong cloud presence for a bit now,
and has already has official Canonical images.  It is hard to sell Fedora
over Ubuntu when I can't use a community-sponsored AMI.  Even the fedora13
ami I made for some uses here had to use the Ubuntu-provided AKI.

So if there's anything that should warrant an exception, this is such a
thing ;)  I have my old Infomagic cd from eons ago that was the first place
(that I know of) to provide the redhat "mother's day" release on a CD, and
I've done quite a lot of things with Redhat and Fedora over the years (I was
a very early Spacewalk user, for instance - put 0.2 to production use).  I
don't know the RedHat corporate culture, though - so I may be bringing up
something everyone already knows and that nothing can be done about.  But if
there is a time, and there is a project, it's now and this one...imho.

Brian LaMere
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