[aur-general] Openstack discussion

[James Bulmer]

Hi all,

Openstack is a collection of projects aimed at providing a opensource
solution to cloud infrastructure deployment and management, It's similar to
products such as Proxmox, Virt-manager and Vmware.

The projects that contribute to Openstack are tightly linked through a set
of API's, and like most projects these API's change as newer versions are
released

You will find most of the Openstack packages in the AUR, but no one has
followed a set naming scheme so the packages are from different
incompatible branches. Deploying Openstack from the AUR is not achievable
at this point in time due to this

A number of maintainers and users have noticed the issue, I have created
this email to highlight the issue and kick start a discussion to solve it.

Lance0312 has suggested using the raw package name (nova, glance, kesytone
ect) for the stable (currently havana) branch, and appending -dev to all
development branches (currently ice-house)

Another issue is the lack of information in the Wiki relating to Openstack,
due to this Lance0312 has created
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenStack (yet to be populated)

Regards

-- James aka nekinie