Re: Recent development patches

Hi.

On 05/12/11 21:01, Martin Schläffer wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
> hi all,
> 
> first of all, thanks Nigel for continuing the support of TuxOnIce!
> 
>> Nigel doesn't appear to have time to follow kernel development on
>> a daily or even weekly basis (not a critique, just an observation),
>> so I maintain my own forward-ports of tuxonice between Nigels
>> official releases.
>>
>> Anyway, in<http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/tuxonice/>
>> you'll find my forward-ports of tuxonice-3.2 to the 3.0/3.1/3.2-rc4
>> kernels.  Compile-tested on x86_64 and i686, but only lightly
>> runtime tested.  No guarantees etc.
> 
> Nigel, what about giving some maintainers you trust access to the
> tuxonice repo, to "officially" generate patches? Or, you could just pull
> these patches from selected developers.

No problem with doing that. I'll try to improve the infrastructure a bit.

> I'm maintaining the Ubuntu PPA and have some scripts for that. But I
> think a git branch for that could be better as well. This would also
> allow other people to work on it.
> 
> Would a migration to github or so make the work easier for Nigel and
> everybody else?

I don't mind the idea of using Github instead or as well.

> I think, making the contribution to TuxOnIce easy for everybody means
> less work for Nigel. After a while, maybe some of the maintainers get
> more into TuxOnIce and even start to continue the development of TuxOnIce?
> 
> This way, Nigel can reduce his work or even fade out slowly. Still, we
> all win since TuxOnIce stays alive...

Regards,

Nigel

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