On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:15:17AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
moving it to ovirt.org rathre than fedora does highlight the independent nature of VDSM rather than being a Fedora or Red Hat only project.
Only to a small degree. Moving a mailing list might impact the first impressions, but far more important than that, is whether the code actually works on non-Fedora/RHEL platforms. In other words, ff you can demonstrate the code is portable & works, the mailing list hosting location will just become a minor curiosity.
So, IMHO, the most significant thing that would demonstrate the independent nature of VDSM, would be for someone to actually do the work get it running on a Debian host and make a point that this is a targetted platform for releases.
I completely agree with this.
There are currently some Fedora-isms in the code that will prevent this, the biggest one I know of being the host network interface setup. This is one we've been preparing to deal with for a while, by adding transactional network change support to libvirt's host networking API. With this now in place, and netcf ported to Debian, moving VDSM to use libvirt's network API would be a significant step forward in portability to non-Fedora OS.
Hmm, interesting. I am going to have to play around with this now. Thanks for pointing it out.