Inter-WG coordination: Stable application runtimes

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 23:24 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>
>> > b) Which WG will take on the task of solving this?  We shouldn't end
>> > up with everybody agreeing that this needs to be solved, but no PRD
>> > proposing to solve this.  Is it the Base WG or the Env and Stacks WG?
>> > Or is it up to Server and Cloud to do it?
>>
>> If the Server/Cloud groups follow the way Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
>> currently developing, that'd be Docker (docker-io package).
>>
>> (These are "server applications", which should be distinct from
>> client/workstation applications, for numerous reasons)
>
>   Workstation WG probably will use GNOME Containers:
> https://www.guadec.org/session/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome/

That's not been discussed yet, much less decided.  I would advocate
for using what the Base WG and/or Env and Stacks WG settles on for
container technology, so as to not differentiate needlessly.

josh