Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part II, "What's Happening?")

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>
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> > On 03/30/2014 11:00 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:11:58PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>> I promised a while ago that I would provide a text version of my
> >>> talk at DevConf, for people who couldn't make it and because
> >>> sitting through a video of me standing up there going on and on
> >>> doesn't really make for good followup discussion.
> >>>
> >>> I posted a link to the first part last week:
> >>>
> >>> <http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-i-why/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > and now, Part II:
> >>>
> >>> <http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-ii-whats-happening/>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > And as I said last week, I will take questions, comments, complaints, in
> > any
> >>> media including replies here, on the article, on the social
> >>> media, or at any bar or coffee shop within walking distance of
> >>> Boston's MBTA.
> >>
> >> So first I'll say these are interesting articles, and I encourage
> >> people to read them.
> >>
> >> I work better when I see some examples of what this would mean in
> >> practice.  Under Fedora.next, how & where would you see the
> >> following being packaged?
> >>
> >> - libvirt
> >>
> >> Big, with lots and lots of big dependencies, but for
> >> virtualization it's pretty much the definition of a core, stable
> >> API.
> >>
> >
> > libvirt is one of those pieces that we need to settle on its
> > positioning. At the absolute minimum, the Fedora Server will almost
> > certainly declare it part of our guaranteed API. Given its
> > wide-ranging utility, I'd also like to see it as part of the Base
> > Design (which means that it is assumed to be a guaranteed API
> > available to all Products).
> 
> Workstation will require this too.  Having it be in Base is a good idea.

Makes sense for base, as with libvirt we're close to containers.

Jaroslav

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> josh
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