[uml-devel] Switching uml_utilities to public CVS and no-maintainer model

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

Now, I'm thinking to move uml_utilities to a CVS repository, either the 
SourceForge one or the UML's own one.

And give to many write-access to it (for public read access we'll see, there 
are security problems with pserver. Having a rsyncable CVS repos like for the 
kernel should be ok - the repos. will be very little anyway).

There are too much little things to fix to have a central maintainer, IMHO. 
And nobody volunteered, sadly, and I can't either.

I'm only 19 years old and little Unix programming experience (yes, I'm the 
same one who works on UML, I've probably a more detailed understanding of the 
kernel than of the Unix userspace), so I have a hard time understanding what 
exactly is going on in uml_switch (a SLIP connection uses a virtual pty? Wow! 
It makes sense since it's called "SLIP", so it must use a tty anyway... still 
I discovered it when reading the uml_net local DoS fix from Steve).

So I can only read the changelogs and the patches and check if they have 
"political" problems (like breaking APIs, being too big and possibly 
destabilizing code). And this when I have time.
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade




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