From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14041381FA for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68D4BE09D7; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2773E09D7 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [94.0.11.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hwoarang) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89A4C33FE09 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 18:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <537E4826.4020305@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:55:34 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Feature - add support for Amazon EC2 References: <20140520160344.6958ba49.dolsen@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20140520160344.6958ba49.dolsen@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 92c6bb63-8975-484c-929a-8cdaaccc13e9 X-Archives-Hash: ab772b56062c352c55b279f9e33856fb On 05/21/2014 12:03 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 04:18:17 +0530 > Proneet Verma wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to add a feature to the catalyst project. I would like to >> deliver the following: >> >> Catalyst module >> which would be used to build AMI (amazon machine images) and upload >> it directly to the AWS >> >> - Catalyst currently produces Gentoo stages using spec files into >> which I would add a feature to build AMIs in the same manner by using >> the spec file. >> - In this manner, user can generate AMIs from latest stages and >> configure their system in whatever fashion they want without >> bloating there system with pre-generated stages (which have >> unnecessary packages). >> - 'rich0' (gentoo-dev Richard Freeman) has very nicely blogged >> about how to bootstrap Gentoo on EC2 >> [here >> ] which I would be following to write this module up inside of >> catalyst for which I would be using Python. >> - User would be expected to provide their AWS related information >> (like region, key pair). >> >> Currently, I'll be concentrating on AWS only but would be extending >> this to Openstack, Virtualbox, DigitalOcean. I have a brief idea >> about the catalyst module (3.0 branch) and have been following as >> well as contributing (some minor bug fixes) it from past few months. >> I'd be really happy to contribute to the gentoo community. >> >> Please give me your feedback. >> >> Regards, >> Proneet Verma >> (irc: proneet @ freenode) > > Yes, by all means, go ahead. When you have some code, ping me and/or > others for some review. Or just send the patches to the mail list. > But for interim code to review just send a link we can look at it or > fetch it from. > Indeed that sounds a good idea to me. -- Regards, Markos Chandras