Re: [Xen-API] Xapi Project 2.0 release

[George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/02/2014 03:59 PM, Jon Ludlam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's about time we had a release!
>
> There has been a huge amount of effort been spent over the last year or
> so since we joined the Linux Foundation, and we're almost at the point
> where the master branch of the xapi-project repositories can be used to
> manage VMs in several different environments. So the main goal of this
> release is that it works without source change on XenServer, CentOS 6.5
> and Ubuntu 14.04. Note that this will be a source only release, as with
> standard xen-project releases.
>
> What we need to do is agree as a community what we need to do before we
> hit the release button. We had a good starting discussion at the Xen
> Hackathon last week, which I'll summarise here:
>
> * Needs to pass 'exercise.sh' tests on Ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 6.5 (via
> buildroot packages).
> * On XenServer, we can exploit the Citrix internal tests (nightly and
> stress), which need to pass with 'reasonable' rates.
> * All OCaml libraries must be available in opam - either through
> xapi-project/opam-repo-dev or (preferably) the standard opam repository.
> * Need to be able to bypass xcp-networkd taking over the management of
> the networking on the host.
> * Documentation! We need at least installation, basic usage, and how to
> contribute, including build instructions.
>
> So, if anyone else has any suggestions for what needs to be done before
> release, please reply and we'll gather together a list of requirements.
>
> Also, we'll need to track the todo list. Anybody have any preference for
> where to do this? wiki.xenproject.org? Github issues?
I don't want to sound to skeptical, but after about 5 year of deep work 
with xapi, I was really disappointed by Citrix VS opensource 
relationship. XenServer was and is not libre. There is source code but 
there is no way to rebuild original ISO from those sources. Decisions 
were made purely in-house sole by Citrix, and published opensource 
version (xapi packages) were broken beyond repair (and were removed from 
repository).
Does something really changed here? I see lot of problems in xapi VS 
community relationship and Citrix is kinda not opensource company 
(Presentation Server, World of Windows and so on). Xensource was bit 
unexpected addition to this tight and cozy wold of Citrix and Microsoft, 
and source publication is not made xapi libre software. Only 'open 
source', but not libre.


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