[lxc-devel] On the road to rc1

[Stéphane Graber]

On 02/18/2013 05:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> Now that alpha3 is out (thanks Daniel!), we should now focus on the
> goals for rc1.
> 
> As a reminder, the expected time for the rc1 pull request is March.
> My current plan is to send the pull request on the 11th.
> 
> The plan being to release 0.9 in early April as long as nothing wrong
> was spotted in 0.9~rc1.
> 
> So that's not a lot of time to get any remaining feature into 0.9.
> 
> As a reminder, the current hope is that once 0.9 is out we can focus on
> 1.0 which I hope we can get released by the end of 2013. By the time we
> get to 1.0, we should have most of the tools be coherent, use the API
> where possible, have good user namespace support, a stable public API
> and reliable upgrades (versioning of the socket protocol/structure).
> 
> As much preliminary work as possible should be done as part of 0.9 so
> that we can focus a lot more on tool consistency, API, documentation and
> stability for 1.0.
> 
> Here's a preliminary list of things that have been mentioned lately on
> the mailing-list or IRC and that I think are worthwhile goal for rc1:
>  - API work
>    - get_version(). This should be able to query both the version of LXC
> currently used for a container (through the abstract socket) as well as
> the current version (as they may be different)
>    - console()
>    - attach()
>    - clone() or at least start thinking of how to re-architecture the
> backend scripts to be usable from the API (so we can get feature parity
> for create and clone between their API and non-API variants.)
>  - Support of different lxc paths. This is done in the C code already
> but needs to be made accessible from all the tools. We should also
> decide on a default value for user namespaces.
>  - Flexible cgroups
>    - Support for multiple containers having the same name (different lxc
> paths)
>    - Support for containers grouping and assigning limits to those groups
>  - Initial work on the privileged helpers for user namespaces
>  - Moving to a single Debian template (lxc-lenny seems to confuse people
> quite a bit).

Oh, forgot to add:
 - Get some kind of upstream support for container autostart.
   The actual autostart would still be done by distro's init scripts,
but the way it's set should be standardized.

> Note that this list just comes from my personal notes, feel free to
> reply with more items ;)
> 
> Some of those changes have already been submitted to the mailing-list
> (thanks Serge!), others just need implementation and some still need to
> be fully discussed.



-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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