CentOS virt - Dec 2016 - Upstream libvirt releases for Virt-SIG

Hi all,

I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream
development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a
long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The
latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is
pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released,
it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released
upstream.

So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of libvirt
for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of
libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The
goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been
released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.

If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?

Jirka

Jirla,
Maybe you should look for CentOS SIG project leaders for your Virt-SIG for
starting.

Xlord

-----Original Message-----
From: CentOS-virt [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jiri
Denemark
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 5:28 PM
To: centos-virt at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS-virt] Upstream libvirt releases for Virt-SIG

Hi all,

I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream development.
And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a long time before
they can start using new features of libvirt. The latest released CentOS
version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is pretty old. But even when
CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released, it will already be old since
libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released upstream.

So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of libvirt for
Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of libvirt
in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The goal is to
take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been released and
rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.

If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?

Jirka
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 23:58:33 +0800, -=X.L.O.R.D=-
wrote:
> Jirla,
> Maybe you should look for CentOS SIG project leaders for your Virt-SIG for
> starting.
Well, the Virt-SIG wiki page says I should contact them via this list...

Jirka

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream
> development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it takes a
> long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The
> latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is
> pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released,
> it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be released
> upstream.
>
> So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of
libvirt
> for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer of
> libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The
> goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's been
> released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.
>
> If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?
>
Sounds good to me, welcome aboard! My only concern is that libvirt is built
also for xen so we need to ensure we don't break anything there.
+1 for me to have Jiri added to Virt SIG


>
> Jirka
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> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
>


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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:35 AM, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap at
citrix.com>
wrote:
>
> > On Dec 6, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at
redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at
redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I talked to our oVirt developers who use CentOS for upstream
> > development. And that's what makes their lives hard because it
takes a
> > long time before they can start using new features of libvirt. The
> > latest released CentOS version is 7.2 with libvirt 1.2.17, which is
> > pretty old. But even when CentOS 7.3 with libvirt 2.0.0 gets released,
> > it will already be old since libvirt 2.5.0 is just about to be
released
> > upstream.
> >
> > So to help them, I'd like to start building upstream releases of
libvirt
> > for Virt-SIG. As one of the core libvirt developers and a maintainer
of
> > libvirt in RHEL I think I should be qualified enough to do so :-) The
> > goal is to take every upstream release of libvirt soon after it's
been
> > released and rebase the current CentOS package on top of it.
> >
> > If it sounds good to you, what should I do to get started?
> >
> > Sounds good to me, welcome aboard! My only concern is that libvirt is
> built also for xen so we need to ensure we don't break anything there.
> > +1 for me to have Jiri added to Virt SIG
>
> I would be really glad to have a shared libvirt between oVirt and Xen
> projects.  Are you planning on only building the most recent release, or on
> maintaining some older releases for some period of time?
>
>  -George

Jiri welcome aboard :-)
Please add yourself and your project to
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization
To get more info about the build system please read:
https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CommunityBuildSystem
CentOS provides a jenkins instance running at https://ci.centos.org/ for
testing your builds.
Feel free ask here if you have any question.

-- 
Sandro Bonazzola
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