Re: [Xci-devel] Archiving XCI : Request for an Archivation Review for the XCI project

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

Andrew,

that is good news. I see a number of options going forward, which really 
depends on your preference and also what committers and maintainers in 
the community think:
1) OpenXCI as a new project hosted on Xen.org - starting as an 
incubation project as per http://www.xen.org/projects/governance.html 
and archive the old one. What you describe sounds sufficiently different.

2) OpenXCI as a separate project: Xen.org can help you promoting the 
project in various ways

If you want and have a bit more clarity on what you want to do and how 
you want to achieve things, I could arrange a call with you and walk you 
through the details.

Regards
Lars

On 30/03/2012 02:51, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
> On 3/29/12, Lars Kurth<lars.kurth@xen.org>  wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> the XCI project appears to have been dormant for a while and there is no
>> project lead for XCI today.  In line with Xen governance (see
>> phttp://www.xen.org/projects/governance.html), I would like to first get
>> community views on the health of the project and then schedule an
>> archivation review.
>>
>> Let me quote from the process: "The review is essentially a pitch why
>> the project should be archived. The purpose of the review is not
>> necessarily to archive a project, but also to provide a last opportunity
>> for interested parties in the Xen.org community to save the project and
>> step up. The Xen.org community manager will support efforts to save the
>> project, should community members want to step up. There is the special
>> case that a project has been completed: in this case the normal
>> situation would be for the project lead to make the case, why this is so."
>>
>> Right now, the project shows a number of issues:
>> a) There is little or no activity
>> b) There is no project lead
>> c) There is no mentor for the project
>> d) Maybe there is a case, that the project has actually been completed
>>
>> The first step of addressing these issues, would be to find a mentor and
>> new project lead for the XCI project. This could be a vendor expressing
>> interest in leading the project, who would ultimately provide the
>> project lead. The project lead could also be an individual. My
>> suggestion is to first have an open discussion about the issues and see
>> if somebody is willing to step up. If so, I will work with the vendor or
>> individual who steps up. Failing this, we will schedule an archivation
>> review.
>>
>> My suggestion is, to allow 2 weeks for discussion. In other words, I
>> will collate the input that I have received by April 12th. We will then
>> schedule the actual review.
>>
>> We have not had archivation reviews in the past, but I believe we should
>> run this as a semi-public meeting. I.e. interested parties approach me
>> and will be invited to the meeting.
>>
> While I am not necessarily wanting to take over the XCI project
> (however, I might consider it), I am putting together my own XCI
> distribution, OpenXCI. It is not based on the xen.org XCI project
> (which is rather outdated), but instead will be based on a fork of the
> free parts of the XCI toolstack from XenClient 2 running on a Debian
> 6.0 base. OpenXCI will be different from other desktop hypervisors in
> that it will be just a multi-boot alternative without any support for
> remote provisioning or management other than SSH (it's intended for
> people who can manage their own computers by themselves), but there is
> no reason that the toolstack couldn't be used elsewhere.
>
> Currently, I have working graphics and input servers, and am using
> them with a more or less stock Debian 6.0 system. I haven't yet ported
> the XCI toolstack because I am trying to find a more stable kernel
> (pv-ops kernels seem to be rather unstable on my system, whereas the
> XenClient 2 xenlinux kernel never crashed except when the drive
> failed). The SourceForge page is at<http://sf.net/projects/openxci/>
> (the graphics and input servers as well as the corresponding QEMU
> patches are available there; I'll post more information soon).
>
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