[xen-tools-dev] Status

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:27:32PM +0200, Dmitry Nedospasov wrote:
> Things are looking good, that is if you can believe our TODO :) All we
> have left are the following:
> * xen-create-image man page overhaul:

Almost done.

> * xen-create-image should check all integer options on non-digits.

Not yet sure how this would be done the best way. Maybe there's some
getopt foo for this?

> * Test suite should pass

This is probably some work.

> * Setup locales in the hooks? <-- I'm taking this one

Thanks!

> I'd really like to do the password script, however I'm not sure what
> password generator works best. How can i generate a password hash with
> salting using a tool like this, does anyone know?

Will have to look through the common tools, but I'm sure at least one
of them is capable of generating salted hashes.

> I also wanted to inquire if there was a timeline for "Clean up the hooks
> directory", i.e. moving to:
> 
> deb-common
> rpm-common

No more for 4.2 IMHO.

> This is listed under a 4.3 release. However i do think its worth
> discussing how to best do this, and when. I think this should be the top
> priority after 4.2.

Yeah, I'd like to the see the refactoring for less code duplication
for the release after 4.2.

Steve seemed to follow an OpenBSD-like numbering scheme, i.e. version
numbers were always raised by 0.1 with some exceptions (there was no
4.0 release), but I'd prefer x.0 releases to be milestone releases, so
that if there is no milestone release after 4.9, the next would be
4.10 and if the next milestone is not directly after 4.9, it's called
5.0 anyway.

So the release which includes the code refactoring will be 5.0 anyway.

> @Axel, do you maybe want to branch this off?

Yes and no. If we start with it before the 4.2 release, I'd do
developement for 5.0 in a branch called 5, 5.0 or 5.x.

As soon as 4.2 is out, that branch will be merged into the master
branch. If there will be bugfix releases for 4.2, we'll branch them
off and call that branch 4, 4.2, 4.x or 4.2.x.

> @Nathan, i saw that you're commiting to your private repository,

Saw that, too. :-)

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 08:20:00AM +1000, Nathan O'Sullivan wrote:
> We've had a few customers asking for Fedora 13, so I've just been  
> working on getting that going.

Great.

> I've pulled a copy of Rinse into my gitorious.org account, applied my  
> patches from last year that make Fedora 12 work, and then made a few  
> further tiny changes to make Fedora 13.

Hmmm, I wonder if those changes would help Steve to start fixing
http://bugs.debian.org/573390?

> On my xen-tools repository I've committed a number of minor changes to  
> fix up Fedora creation

I skimmed through them quickly and there are definitely a few which
I'll pull in without bigger testing. Just hadn't the time for doing it
yet. :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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