Atomic 2 week releases

[Michael P. McGrath]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel J Walsh" <dwalsh at redhat.com>
> To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 10:45:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Atomic 2 week releases
> 
> 
> On 03/09/2015 11:34 AM, Michael P. McGrath wrote:
> > Hey all, I wanted to start a thread about doing more frequent Atomic
> > releases in Fedora.
> > In particular I'd like to start building a new atomic release every two
> > weeks that
> > includes the latest version of Docker, Kubernetes, and OSTree for the
> > Fedora Atomic
> > images.
> >
> > The problem I'm trying to solve here is that there is a lot of work going
> > on upstream in
> > the Docker and Kubernetes communities and there isn't a very good way to
> > consume that
> > upstream work on a Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS system today.  By focusing on more
> > regular
> > releases, we can fix some of the issues we've seen (like demoing new
> > features at a
> > conference that people can't actually use).
> >
> > There are still some details to work out like whether to base this image on
> > Fedora
> > $CURRENT or rawhide and what to do when the builds fail.  Fortunately, this
> > can possibly
> > be done without much additional change to the release process.  We're
> > already rebuilding
> > the docker/kubernetes/ostree rpms almost daily, and there are nightly
> > builds as well
> > (at least in rawhide).
> >
> > If we can pull a 2 week process off, I'd like to see that followed by a 4
> > week process
> > in CentOS which will behave similarly but with the slightly slower-moving,
> > more stable bits.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > [1] http://www.projectatomic.io/download/
> >
> > --
> > Mike McGrath | mmcgrath at redhat.com | (312) 660-3547
> > Atomic | Red Hat Chicago | http://projectatomic.io/
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> I guess the question here would be around where we would do the releases?
> 
> In a perfect world, I would like to see "Daily" releases in Rawhide, as
> long was we had an installable
> tree.  Every two weeks would be in Fedora Stable.  If others wanted to
> back port to Fedora Stable-1
> that would be ok, but I don't see that as the primary focus.
> 
> We would be doing a lot of this with the Docker Devel branch, along with
> some patches that we are experimenting
> with.
> 
> I am sure K8s would be doing something similar.
> 

What version of docker would be in Fedora $CURRENT?  stable or devel?  And
would that version go out to both Atomic Fedora *and* regular Fedora users
or just Atomic Fedora?

    -Mike

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