On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 10/29/2014 12:54 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:58:04PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 07/18/2014 07:49 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>>>> [2] I contacted Steve McIntyre privately about it, but he didn't reply. > >>>> > >>>> Bugger, sorry. Must have missed the mail totally. :-( > >>> > >>> As I wrote on IRC, I thought you were busy with arm stuff, so I didn't > >>> dare to ask again. It's probably my fault for not insisting. > >>> > >>>> I think we could/should have space on cdimage etc. > >>> > >>> That'd be awesome! > >>> > >>>> - how big are we talking? > >>> > >>> 350 / 400 MB for the normal compressed qcow2 image. We could as well > >>> ship the raw image, but I don't think that's necessary since it's > >>> possible to convert the qcow2 back into .img using qemu-img. > >> > >> I'd love to be able to download Debian cloud images from an official place. > >> What is missing/required to make this happen? Can I help? > > > > Simple lack of time thus far, to be honest. :-( > > > > Thomas: where are your images currently? > > Hi Steve, > > I upload them to the HP cloud, but also over here: > http://archive.gplhost.com/openstack-images/
Very good. Thanks for the pointer. > Though this image contains the bootlogd patch to support logging on > multiple consoles. I'm currently trying to make this updated in > proposed-updates though (see: #767202). > > On 10/29/2014 05:13 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > Lets build something like this: > > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/ but, for Debian, of > > course... ? > > I can help. > > Let's stick to the plan of distributing the images together with the > Debian CDs. What exactly does that mean, 'together with the CDs'? > It's not the role of Debian to advertize for a particular > provider like Amazon (even though it's IMO ok to maintain the images > within large cloud service providers). I don't think this is about promoting cloud providers. It's about providing a central place for users to learn where official Debian images can be found. Are you concerned about the effort to maintain such a site or about Debian being perceived as favoring certain cloud providers or is it against some Debian policy? > You may also know that we already provide some images within AWS. See > the debian-cloud list. I would recommend anyone that maintain images to > advertize about them in that list rather than in debian-devel or on the > Debian web site. IMO it feels wrong for a potential user to have to hunt through mailing lists to find and learn about official Debian cloud images. A central place to download images (OpenStack, AWS, Docker, ...) is very useful, links to providers that host such images would be a nice add-on for end users but I can understand if there's resentment. ...Juerg > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) >
