Subject: Re: [vserver] vserver git server and misc. thoughts
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:13:15 +0200 (CEST)

Adam Majer wrote:
> Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:35:16PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
>>> Or at least people send patches and commits to it instead of that
>>> kernel-diff-monster!
>>
>> is that a nickname for me? :)
>
> GIT allows for tracking of changes so you don't need to do much work do
> view changes to some file between two different versions of the kernel.

IMHO this is harder to do with git than plain old kernel trees...

> GIT is also used by the kernel developers.
>
>> huh? why do you think that development stalled in
>> Linux-VServer? (or what do you mean by vserver?)
>> note: the changes in 2.6.24-2.6.26 (caused by the
>> partial adoption of OS-Level virtualization and related
>> breakage) requires major changes to certain parts of
>> Linux-VServer, which in turn require a lot of testing
>> before we will flag it 'Stable' ...
>>
>> as for recent development, go and get the experimental
>> version (currently 2.3.0.35-pre5) and let us know how
>> it works for you (and/or what issues you have)
>>
>
> I'm only looking at http://linux-vserver.org and well, it looks stalled.
>
> Grsecurity and PaX are in kind of same boat as vserver. Out of tree
> patches that are not necessarily stalled, but there is very little
> *visible* work being done on them.
>
>>> Now, regarding actual work on stuff. Adrian Bunk has been maintaining
>>> the 2.6.16.x kernel tree and will continue to maintain it for a bit.
>>> Is it feasible to backport vs.2.2 branch back to that stable tree?
>>
>> sure, but that's definitely something I won't spend time
>> on, unless it is well payed ...
>
> That is quite understandable.
>
> Anyway, do we have the location of the current patches, test patches,
> etc. for the 2.2 and 2.3 versions aside the links from
> http://linux-vserver.org ?
>
> Is http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental the "official" development area?

Always has been.

-- 
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson