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 -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
