[RFC] Trusty plans for xen-api/xcp

[George Dunlap]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 01:45:44PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
>> Unless somebody steps up to maintain xen-api, I don't think it makes
>> sense to continue keeping these packages in Ubuntu, given that Debian
>> have removed them from testing and the existing packages broken (and, it
>> seems, thus stuck in trusty-proposed). So we should remove them from
>> trusty-proposed.
>
> I have filed bug 1278352 to have these packages removed from Trusty.

FYI, I just had a chat with the lead xapi developer.  He's said that
unfortunately management has told them not to work on the open-source
xapi packages (at least for now); so if there is nobody in the
community willing to maintain it, then I think removing it is probably
the best option.

On a related note -- what version of libvirt / Xen will be in Trusty?
The SuSE guys have made a lot of progress on getting good support for
libxl and libvirt; that's probably the best way forward.

 -George