Herbert Poetzl wrote: > Dear Linux-VServer Community! > > Every now and then I get asked what the Roadmap for > Linux-VServer is and what Features or Changes can be > expected in the near (and far) future, so I decided > to share my thoughts with you on the ML. > > (note that they are not just Roadmap related :) > > First, Linux-VServer is not dead! :) > > Despite the hype (7 and 2 years ago), mainline > (i.e. kernel.org) is not nearly ready to replace the > quite complex mechanisms required to build and run > an isolated Guest, as Linux-VServer (and similar > Projects) provide. > > Second, as the number of Linux-VServer kernel > hackers is still quite small, and a lot of changes > in mainline require quite some testing to get a new > Stable Version, I think we need to find a new > revenue strain to get that work done. > > To complicate things, my wife and I relocated to a > new, old house, which needs a lot of work, and we > still need to sell the old one (more to that at the > end of this posting) > > One proposal I have (which was actually tested over > the years, and seems to work - at least for me) would > be that Companies using Linux-VServer get some kind > of 'Service Contract' with a Developer (which is a > good thing anyway), ranging between a single hour > per month up to a day per week, for, let's say 100 > EUR per hour, which can be consumed or not, where in > the latter case, this time will be spent on general > Linux-VServer development and testing. (if you like > that idea, please contact me and I'm certain we can > arrange something) > > The big advantage over occasional donations is that > the developer can 'somewhat' rely on that income and > does not need to 'hope' for an upcoming donation. > > Now for the Roadmap: > > I think what we need most in the near future is a > new, well tested stable release, which can be adopted > by distributions and which will be maintained for > a reasonable amount of time, and that's actually what > I'm working on whenever time permits. > > New features will mainly include adaptations of 'old' > features, lost and forgotten over time, and improve- > ments on the mainline integration (like cgroups and > such), as well as some virtualizations to simplify > handling and make it more guest friendly. > > One upcoming mainline feature which I will try to > integrate as soon as it is available is the check- > pointing and resume functionality. > > I also plan to do a web frontend to control basic > functionality and a minimalistic host distribution > to run Linux-VServer Guests on, but I have no idea > when I will find time for that. > > Finally, as usual, input here is welcome, so if you > have an isolation feature you want to see really soon, > or further questions, please let me know. > > > thanks in advance, > Herbert > > > > Regarding the old house we are trying to sell: > > I created a web page which will contain all required > information for a buyer, and I'd like to promote that > page (especially in and around Austria), so some link > to that page would probably help a lot for major search > engines to pick it up, i.e. what I am asking is that > if you have a site where you can put a link to it, that > would be really appreciated. > > http://www.reihenendhaus.at > (means end-of-terrace house in german) > > sensible keywords would include: > Laaben, Reihenhaus, Garten, Siedlung, Verkauf > > > in case anybody want to tell you they are interested in the house. http://www.reihenendhaus.at/contact.html how should they reach you? -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts