Packaging Distribution and Management Hill

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Hills:
**As a z/OS System Programmer I can manage extensions to Zowe in a reliable, repeatable and consistent manner across conformant offerings, through download, install, configure into an existing Zowe instance, auditability of which extensions are active, upgrade, uninstall

As a z/OS conformant extension I can package my offering in a way that z/OS system programmers can download and install/extend/configure their existing Zowe instances in a consistent way.**

Notes:
There are a number of issues with the current version of Zowe that make it quite coupled and not very flexible. This will cause challenges going forward when thinking about HA, hybridisation/containerisation of Zowe and adoption by extenders.

Extending Zowe Lifecycle.pptx

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Here's an edit I made to clarify package manager metadata versus zowe metadata, from today's call.

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an example of how you may package code so that runtime structure is not disturbed from latest experiments:
https://github.com/zowe/zlux-build/blob/staging/conda/README.md

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Implemented in v2