Timeline for official Debian cloud images for the Stretch release

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Hi folks,

 

There's been some discussion between various teams (the trademark

team, the CD team and debian-cloud people) about what should be done

to enable production of official Debian images for various cloud

platforms. We have a few requirements agreed for such images to be

classed as *official* (i.e. blessed and released by Debian), and one

of these is that they should be built on Debian hardware, controlled

by the (increasingly inaccurately named!) Debian CD team.

 

To get things going in time for Stretch, we're going to need to

co-ordinate our work. I'm proposing the following timeline for

official cloud images.

 

* 2nd July: Initial images building on cdbuilder.debian.org

 

That's the first day of DebConf16. I'll be around at DebCamp to

work with people on getting these going if needed.

 

* 3rd September: Requirements agreed for a test suite for cloud images

 

To make sure that the images we're producing are sane with

reasonable quality, we'll be running tests on them. We'll need to

agree what should be tested (and how!).

 

* 15th October: Images need to pass agreed test requirements

 

All images will need to meet our agreed minimum test requirememnt

to be considered ready to release as official Debian cloud images

for Stretch.

 

There are some other requirements that we've agreed for official

images too, but this proposed timeline is the thing I want to push out

today. If you want to discuss this timeline, please follow up on the

debian-cloud list.

 

Cheers,

 

Steve

 

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