On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:30:50AM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > sure I _could_ support a dapper vserver kernel, but, > and here is the important fact, this would not scale ... > > in the very near future, I'd be supporting 20 different > kernels from at least 10 different distros, and there > would be no time left for development, so some other > model is required to solve this, and it's actually > quite simple ... > > a) somebody steps up as 'new' maintainer for a dapper > vserver kernel (preferable stable and devel) > I'm willing to help, but i'm a little anxious with the stepping forward as my free time is very limited. > b) that somebody commits himself/herself to tracking > changes in dapper _and_ vserver in the forseeable > future > I'm using a script to automate this task, so tracking a stable Ubuntu release and a stable Vserver release should be quite straightforward. (script and patches are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VServer)
> c) that person contacts me and we arrange to do an > initial port on that kernel, something which can > be considered a _known_good_ state > For Ubuntu the Dapper 2.6.15.6 kernel and 2.0.2 Vserver patch (slightly modified for dapper) would be a good start. > d) extensive testing has to follow, we don't want to > have folks run into merge issues, this is where > the dapper-vserver community comes into play > > e) all changes to stable and devel are released in > small patches, which the maintainer has to check > and if required discuss with me > Are the small patches the delta- patches on http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/ ? Which delta- patches are combined in the bigger release and -rc diffs ? > f) feedback from the dapper-vserver community, may > if be bugs, issues or feature requests will go > to that person, which will filter them and, if > applicable relay them to mainstream development > > HTH, > Herbert > > PS: this seems to work with Micah Anderson and debian > kernels so why shouldn't it work with other distros > Will hopefully work for Ubuntu also. Gerald _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
