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

[Jonathan Aquilina]

welcome to the team axel. will u be adding support for newer versions of
ubuntu at some point?
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:

> 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/
>
>


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Jonathan Aquilina
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