[Cryptography-dev] Criteria for first release?

[Alex Gaynor]

After getting some feedback from some other people, I'd like to suggest the
following idea:

We not do a full release until we have some high level recipes, otherwise
it's just primitives, and we've basically released a foot-gun.

Alex


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Jarret Raim <jarret.raim at RACKSPACE.COM>
> wrote:
>
> >>> * CommonCrypto backend
> >>
> >> The CommonCrypto backend can probably wait for a subsequent release.
> >> If we did decide we wanted it to be part of an initial release we would
> need
> >> to prioritize getting a test infrastructure outside of Travis up and
> running so
> >> we can run OS X tests.
> >
> > As a side note, I'm working on this. There is a team inside Rackspace
> that has a small mac mini farm they use for testing builds. I'm trying to
> get us a VM on it so we can use it to test. Failing that, I'll go get us
> one of those fancy new trashcans or something to use for automated builds.
> >
> > We started talking a bit on IRC about OS packing for cryptography. I'd
> like to offer up some space on the Rackspace pub cloud to do this. We
> should be able to have a Jenkins instance that farms out to various build
> slaves for building and testing packages. Besides the OSX one above, we
> should be able to cover most / all major distros. The full list is below if
> anyone is interested. We can add anything that's missing of course.
>
> Just to be clear, your idea here is to provide repositories or something
> that people could install cryptography with using their system package
> managers?
>
> >
> > Do we think this is the right approach? I'm not wild about using both
> Travis and Jenkins, but I don't think there is a way to have Travis build
> off of remote build slaves and it only offers Ubuntu and OSX backends right
> now. Anyway, if we like the Jenkins approach I'll go get us the Cloud
> account and get it set up.
>
> This is for tests? Or for packaging? For tests we could possibly use
> pytest-xdist to test on a rackspace slave. For packaging we’d probably want
> to check in some build scripts and just run those build scripts from
> jenkins.
>
> Honestly some of the biggest problem is the need to have isolated throw
> away environments. This is especially important for pull requests.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Jarret
> >
> >
> > Arch 2013.9
> > CentOS 5.9
> > CentOS 6.4
> > Debian 6.06 (Squeeze)
> > Debian 7 (Wheezy)
> > Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow)
> > Fedora 19 (Schrodinger's Cat)
> > FreeBSD 9.1
> > Gentoo 13.3
> > OpenSUSE 12.3
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
> > Scientific Linux 6.4
> > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
> > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
> > Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)
> > Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
> > Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
> > Vyatta Network OS 6.5R2
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (base install without updates)
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SharePoint 2010 Foundation with SQL Server
> 2008 R2 Express
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SharePoint 2010 Foundation with SQL Server
> 2008 R2 SP1 Standard
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Standard
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Web
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2012 SP1 Standard
> > Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2012 SP1 Web
> > Windows Server 2012
> > Windows Server 2012 (base install without updates)
> > Windows Server 2012 + SharePoint 2013 with SQL Server 2012 SP1 Standard
> > Windows Server 2012 + SQL Server 2012 SP1 Standard
> > Windows Server 2012 + SQL Server 2012 SP1 Web
> >
> >
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