Further Xen-Tools development (was: Re: [xen-tools-discuss] ubuntu)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 08:18:20AM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun Jan 31, 2010 at 09:15:33 +0100, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> >    hey guys is support for newer ubuntu versions in the works in regards to
> >    xen-tools? if not how can one setup ubuntu without them?
> 
>   The xen-tools project is currently undergoing a transition to new
>  ownership

Indeed. I'm currently in the process of taking over xen-tools's
upstream development as well as Debian packaging. I hope to have
xen-tools back in Debian at least as long as Xen support is in
Debian's kernel itself. (Which currently means for Squeeze, but
probably no more for Squeeze+1.)

Short background info about me:

I contribute to Open Source Software in general and Debian in
particular for many years now. Since a few weeks, I'm also officially
a Debian Developer.

I work as a system administrator in the IT Services Group of the Dept.
of Physics at ETH Zurich, and despite Xen having some issue we like it
and our Xen infrastructure is based on xen-tools and dphys-config.

I currently prepare a new upstream bugfix release (4.2) and the
according Debian package which should at least all the bugs which were
more or less easy to fix.

I've setup a Mercurial repo at http://noone.org/hg/xen-tools/ where
you can follow what I'm doing.

In the near future, the xen-tools website will move over to my site,
too, but URL will remain, so you shouldn't notice anything about that
move. (I currently though give bugs and packaging higher priority...
:-)

> and it seems likely that such support will appear afterward.

Yeah. I would be happy, if you could file a wish-list bug in the
Debian bug tracking system for that. (Not sure how that would work on
Ubuntu/Launchpad, but at least I should get information about bugs
submitted there, too.)

Further feature plans by me: Add dphys-config support to xen-tools
(e.g. a command line switch or config option to enable it without
fiddling around with hook files). We currently already use
dphys-config with xen-tools, but using additional hook files.

Any help, comments, patches, bug reports, etc. from other people who
would like to continue to use xen-tools are appreaciated.

To Steve and the other previous package maintainers; I'll unarchive
and reopen all xen-tools bugs soon, so you may get a bunch of mails
because of that.

		Regards, Axel
-- 
Axel Beckert - abe at deuxchevaux.org, abe at debian.org - http://noone.org/abe/