for discussion: Fedora OpenShift as an objective

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 04:56:19PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> Do you have someone in mind to lead this objective?
>
> Not that I've specifically talked to about that yet.
>
>> If so, is there a reason they didn't propose this themselves?
>
> Release early release often? I wanted to start the conversation — this
> isn't a real proposal yet.

OpenShift is a large complex platform, if we don't have buy in from
the OpenShift teams themselves I think we'll end up in a situation
where we're constantly chasing our tail and all the issues involved
and it won't be pretty for anyone. Having dealt with OpenShift
Enterprise on premise I feel this is something everyone needs to buy
into for it to be a success otherwise you end up with a bad experience
for all Fedora, OpenShift and worse the end user.

That said, a lot of the core lower level components of OpenShift v3,
like kubernetes, are already packaged and actively maintained in
Fedora, assuming they don't need massive forks and need to be
maintained twice, and because it uses docker as the container format
and supports any of them it means we don't need to deal with
cartridges and hell surrounding those I feel it's more likely to be an
easier task over all than the previous attempt..... but there's a
bunch of assumptions there ;-)