On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:39:25 +0200, Christoph Lukas <christoph.lukas@gmx.net> wrote: > Indeed sad news. > >> Anyone else any feelings about this? Any chance of a rescue attempt? > > As you might know, I am trying to maintain ubuntu vserver kernel images > at [1]. > > If you think about maintaining a Debian Linux-VServer kernel image we > could probably join efforts. > > Cheers, > Christoph > > [1]: https://launchpad.net/~christoph-lukas/+archive/ppa Hey all, I've only recently started using Linux-VServer but I am really impressed by its performance so far. I was initially having problems with the Lenny kernel's but then discovered Ben's beautiful repository and have had some servers running stable for weeks now. Anyway, I was wondering how much work is actually involved in maintaining a kernel image? With Debian's slow release cycle it seems that once they stick with a kernel for a release, you only get updated kernel's when the whole release gets updated or there are major security fixes required. So I figured generally there is going to be a /trunk kernel image updated and then you just need to apply the current VS patch against it and package it? I am definitely overdue for giving back to FOSS so this is something I may be able to commit some time to.. however I want to make sure I am not getting in over my head here and end up letting the project down. Can anyone estimate how much time they think it would take per week/month, etc? and if it would generally be in waves of some busy weeks then quiet for a month or two, or pretty steady? Cheers, Mark