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

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

[Blaisorblade]

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.
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
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[uml-devel] Re: Switching uml_utilities to public CVS and no-maintainer model

[Blaisorblade]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:39, Michael Richardson wrote:
> I'm happy to deal with whatever.
> More open CVS is a good idea.
>
> I even have a gForge install at <XXX> if you want.
Removed the hostname just in case (I didn't now why you mailed me privately, 
maybe you just forgot to CC the list).
> However, there will be some bumps until April 1, at which point it goes
> live.
What's gForge?
> I don't think that anyone ever did merge in my changes to uml_switch.
> I don't recall who volunteered to do that work.
Nobody volunteered actually... IIRC, your featureful changes just modularized 
it and allowed part of it to be used in uml_netjig, right?

In this case, I think it can be accepted (I saw some remarks in the discussion 
but I think they were addressed enough, in the end).
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[uml-devel] Re: Switching uml_utilities to public CVS and no-maintainer model

[Michael Richardson]

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>>>>> "Blaisorblade" == Blaisorblade  <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> writes:
    >> I'm happy to deal with whatever.  More open CVS is a good idea.
    >> 
    >> I even have a gForge install at <XXX> if you want.

    Blaisorblade> Removed the hostname just in case (I didn't now why
    Blaisorblade> you mailed me privately, maybe you just forgot to CC
    Blaisorblade> the list).

  No, I just didn't want to broadcast the location of the new install

    >> However, there will be some bumps until April 1, at which point
    >> it goes live.

    Blaisorblade> What's gForge?

  GPL version of what sf.net runs. Supported by _The GForge Group_.
  (www.gforge.org)

    >> I don't think that anyone ever did merge in my changes to
    >> uml_switch.  I don't recall who volunteered to do that work.

    Blaisorblade> Nobody volunteered actually... IIRC, your featureful
    Blaisorblade> changes just modularized it and allowed part of it to
    Blaisorblade> be used in uml_netjig, right?

  Yes.

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

[Steve Schmidtke]

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

Ok...

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

Is there really that much to fix?  The tarball hasn't been updated in almost 
a year; I figured the package had stabilized.   If there is a wish list I 
wouldn't mind seeing it.  And I did volunteer, I just don't have the 
experience nor the resources (e.g. hotmail will not do) to do it without 
some handholding and support.

>I'm only 19 years old and little Unix programming experience

heh.  You, my friend, have a bright future ahead of you.

Steve




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

[Jeff Dike]

steve_schmidtke@hotmail.com said:
>  If there is a wish list I  wouldn't mind seeing it.  And I did
> volunteer, I just don't have the  experience nor the resources (e.g.
> hotmail will not do) to do it without  some handholding and support.

I can give you hosting on www.user-mode-linux.org.  And no experience is not
an excuse - we were all babes in the woods at one point :-)

				Jeff




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