Notification of available upgrades on EC2

Registered by Soren Hansen

How do we deal with the availability of new AMI's on EC2? How do we notify the user, and how do we facilitate the actual update?

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Jos Boumans
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Scott Moser
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Scott Moser
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for lucid
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-10.04-beta-2
Started by
Scott Moser
Completed by
Scott Moser

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jib review 2009-12-18: This seems a matter of instituting a standard communication process. Scott, I would like your input for this.

jib review 2010-02-22: Please update work items to be done for this spec, and update spec with links to mailthreads/wikipages

beta 2 work items: uec-query-builds now has '--latest-ec2' option for querying info on ec2. per 'Validation', as mentioned in bug 423856, if you run a daily older than last release it will put MOTD stating newer available.

Status:
Delivered.

Work items for ubuntu-10.04-beta-2:
Improve uec-query-builds, easily query ami of latest in $region: DONE
Validation: DONE

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