It is apparent that something is wrong with uml_switch (though I don't know the code and I'm not going to express technical opinion, only "management" one).
I've just seen about a dozen patches to Steve Schmidtke, two different rewrites from Gerd and Felix, and a request from Michael to merge some code (uml_netjig) from OpenSWAN/FreeSWAN (IIRC) into it; and it could be something very interesting for SuSE customers, I think - I only know that Open/FreeSWAN it's about VPN, nothing more - so maybe Gerd could be interested in this. Michael, could you start posting it here, instead that to Jeff (maybe you did and I didn't notice, if it was time ago, but now it's the moment to repost it). Felix, even if your newer code is not yet "releasable", it can help anyway... even just describing the changes you did and why... design ideas are more important than code itself sometimes. Steve, merging at least the earlier of your patches (they are splitup The Right Way(tm)) might be done soon, without lots of discussions. If you feel so, you might split uml_switch from the rest (but remember the user point of view - two packages doubles the setup time). Anyway rename the uml_router folder to uml_switch, please... time to fix it! Clearly, Jeff is current working on completely different things, and it's a right thing for him to do - he is not the "I'll do everything about UML" boy, and time is short. It is not even the "UML dictator". So I asked him if someone else could take over the maintainance of uml_switch, and he basically agreed. The only doubt is: 1) he wants to appoint somebody he really trusts as the uml_switch maintainer. 2) I think that, within the UML community, there are enough experienced developers that can work together and get it right themselves, even deciding for a CVS development model, even because userspace code has different stability requirements from kernelspace one (not that uml_switch can be faulty, just it's easier to make it correct than with UML). This, in the most abstract form, is a well-known debate - think to "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond. I was simply astonished when I read "Think to users as co-developers". I've never been against that, but reading it so clearly explained made me think. Now, I've not started distributing SKAS patches because someone told me to do that. Ingo Molnar was working on it on incompatible ways, so I took his work and made it backwards compatible, did some other cleanups and published it all over. Then it become more and more serious... and one week ago Jeff said "I've just been happy with you taking over the maintainership over it". If you are good guys (and you are), I think you can sort out by discussing it here (I'm just against the creation of a separate ML for that development - things don't work that way). So, the ball is over to you. In this moment, Gerd Knorr seems the one who has the time and the position (working in SuSE) to manage it well (he can push updates to its users and so on, for instance) but it's just my little 2 cents. Or you might use our wiki (http://uml.harlowhill.com/) as distribution center... how much of you didn't ever know it exists? Well, it being so unknown is the biggest bug we experience now. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
