On Monday 25 June 2007 10:17:30 wrote Adrian Schröter:
> On Sunday 24 June 2007 11:11:35 wrote Hans Witvliet:
> > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 18:38 -0400, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
> > > Alexey Eremenko escribió:
> > > > I believe SUSE should not be limited by Xen-only approach.
> > >
> > > and I believe openSUSE should do one thing, and do it right, not many
> > > half working virtualization alternatives.
> >
> > You wrote about OpenSuSE:
> > But isn't that the essential idea behind "the open source community"?
> > Walk all paths (by the people who know what they are doing).
> > The best (working/supported) solution will gain the most users.
> >
> > If you only present a single option, people can not choose...
> > (Same goes with kde/gnome any many other sw-packages, not?)
> >
> > If the O.P. can develop a working xen-alternative and put it on the
> > build-server: fine by all means. Community, and the suse team will look
> > at it and evalute it. If it's more-of-the-same, it won't be picked up.
> > If it's better, or has more potential, well, who knows...
>
> To avoid such problems, we created the "Project Modell" in the build
> service. This means that everything can get available there under the way
> and control by the people who contributing to that project.
>
> But this does not mean that everything has to go to Factory. There are even
> additional rules which needs to be fullfilled for Factory like:
>
>  * common user interesst ( I think this is true for openVZ ).
>  * quality and esp. security design flaws needs to be checked before
>  * Maintainance needs to be ensured for two years. That needs a person
>    who understand the code internals and can backport or create fixes for
>    the version which was part of the release. Can we ensure this ?

I forgot to mention ...

In general, I agree that we should have only one solution and do it right with 
this one. But I see that there are different use-cases for XEN and openVZ.

XEN can be used for supporting complete different systems, while openVZ is 
usually used to create effizient multiple instances of the same system.

bye
adrian


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Adrian Schroeter
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