On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:19:24AM +0100, ADNET Ghislain wrote: > Dallas Kashuba a écrit : > > > >On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > >>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. > > > > > >I think you are on the right track here as far as making it possible > >to spend more of your available time on the project. DreamHost > >currently provides some amount of ongoing financial support to > >several open source projects we rely on and would also be interested > >in this case. > > > > > >>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. > > > > > >When I first started using Linux-Vserver the biggest obstacle was lack > >of clear documentation. Once I figured out which documents could tell > >me what, it got easier. Right now, though, there's a lack of > >documentation on how to use the newer cgroup-based scheduling. In my > >opinion, the biggest weakness of the project today is a lack of > >organized documentation. That is clearly something that could be done > >by a volunteer and it's perhaps not the absolute best use of time for > >one of the programmers, but on the other hand it does need to be done > >by somebody. > > Dallas > that is why i try to document everything i do with vserver on the wiki. please keep doing so, I think that is valuable input in the future, I think, we should separate out 'finalized' pages from notes and in progress work very similar to what wikipedia does to some extend thanks, Herbert > http://linux-vserver.org/util-vserver:Cgroups > (that is really a mini draft !! ) > http://linux-vserver.org/util-vserver:Cheatsheet > any help is welcome here ! > I follow the same route as you, hard to find docs you can just read > the source to have it. Support on IRC is awesome but it's so 90's, few > people will go there and also we take precious time from Bertl and > Daniel there. > IF you have some internal docs about what you overcome please share it > on the wiki. I spent hours trying to figure out the setting for cgroup > to work with the vserver-util (yes i am a slow learner even with daniel > and bertl's help...) so i shared it on a draft page on the wiki as soon > as i had it working :) > -- > Cordialement, > Ghislain >