Atomic 2 week releases

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Mar 10 16:31:27 UTC 2015


On 03/09/2015 12:03 PM, Michael P. McGrath wrote:
> ----- 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
Those are the questions I would like to have answered.
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