Final Release Criterion for Xen DomU

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:38:02PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> It's not so much a question of 'do we have the resources in place to
> probably make sure it works at release time' but 'is it a terrible
> disaster if we make a release in which it's broken'. That's what the
> release validation process is meant to ensure, and _only_ that. It's not
> like, if we don't make it a release blocker, it means no-one will care
> about Xen and it will always be broken.
> 
> I'm still madly catching up with stuff, but for me the only
> consideration so far which falls into this category is the EC2 one, but
> that is a *big* consideration. It's pretty close to being enough to make
> me vote to have it as a criterion. It would certainly be unfortunate to
> ship a release you couldn't install as an EC2 guest.

Now that releng is doing and EC2 release, it would be unfortunate indeed.
A lot of work has gone into this over the past year, and I don't think that
putting non working images is an option.  It seems a bit odd that with EC2
as a release platform, xen DomU wouldn't be a requirement for release
criteria.
In other news, Fedora 16 beta images are up on EC2, created and pushed by
releng:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images

Justin