On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:15:56PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > 1. How and who will take over the lead of kernel maintenance?
I do hope that Herbert stays the kernel maintainer. > 2. Where will we have the kernel sources? Will these reside in a CVS? Or > bitkeeper? Bitkeeper? How many people would be able to read that? Not that it matters, since Herbert is going to stay the maintainer, right? Or has there been a definite resignment yet? > 3. The current kernel source is quite different from the vanilla kernel. > Should we try to maintain the extensive set of patches that are applied > to the Debian kernel (and are not Debian specific)? Or should we revert > to the vanilla kernel and not backport things from 2.6.x kernel to 2.4.x > (eg. IPsec)? > > IMHO, I would think that the best way to go would be with the vanilla > kernel or as close as possible to vanilla kernel, but I would like to > get some other opinions. I don't know where he gets the patches from, but I think a big part is the removal of non-free drivers. Not something I would want to dig through... Those probably still have to be removed, if I interpret the outcome of the latest vote correctly. Kinda rules out bitkeeper, too I would think. Christian
