Hi, I don't think Marcus' remark was meant to be disingenuous, but, in any case. Simon and I discussed some of the issues yesterday via XMPP. We agree there are lots of things Marcus and I can do, but a lot of things become easier and more useful to do when upstream is ready start thinking about rxk5 in detail. Simon pointed out that once 1.6 branches, rxk5 patches can flow onto head--and that means that folks can start reviewing changes for potential merge. Even if it takes a while to get through them, that's the most efficient process to be on, and the sooner we can start it, the more productive we can be.
Regards, Matt ----- "Derrick Brashear" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Marcus Watts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Marcus has also summarised the issues to the afs3-stds list, along > >> with his feelings of how desirable / achievable each feature might > be: > >> > >> > http://michigan-openafs-lists.central.org/archives/afs3-standardization/2009-Oc > >> tober/000512.html > >> > >> (There are additional issues, beyond those from the hackathon, on > that > >> list - in particular, many sites indiciated at the Rome Workshop > that > >> a flag day transition to rxk5 would not be achievable for them) > >> > >> S. > > > > I should comment a bit about timeline. > > > > At the hackathon, it turns out the openafs gatekeepers have a > schedule > > whereby 1.6 comes out in "6 months", and nothing regarding improved > > security mechanisms can happen "to the mainline" before then. So > that > > schedule has nothing to do with rxk5; it's an absolute constraint. > > Apparently code revision system branches were invented recently or > something. You should check them out. They're awesome. > > Derrick > with equivalent disingenuous skills to the next guy > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
