Re: [gentoo-dev] openmosix maintainer needed

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Imhof

Hi,

OpenMosix is atm in the process of being ported to kernel 2.6.
Therefor the kernel patches for 2.4 are a little bit outdated.
The userland tools are rewritten as well for 2.6.

Current progress is as follows:
Patches for 2.6 exist and are in an alpha state. Means basic 
functionality is there, still bugs in there.
Userland tools are atm a little bit more alpha as they rely on the 
kernel interfaces.


If no one else steps up i can maintain openmosix, but my time is quite 
limited. But i think this should be a better option than removing it 
from the tree.



Regards
Michael

Daniel Drake wrote:

Hi,

openmosix has been hardmasked for a long time:

# Tim Yamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Aug 2006)
# Security mask
# Bugs #135167, #137623, #137626, #138617, #139321,
# #139475, #139641, #140444, #141503, #142616, #142617
sys-kernel/openmosix-sources
sys-cluster/openmosixview
sys-cluster/openmosixtest
sys-cluster/openmosix-user
sys-cluster/openmosixwebview
sys-cluster/openmosix-3dmon-stats

It should be removed from portage, but as this is quite a big thing I'm 
expressing some haste before kicking it. Is anyone working on bringing 
this back up to date? Any strong objections to the actual removal 
(despite it being hardmasked already)?


Thanks,
Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-dev] openmosix maintainer needed

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Imhof

Hi,

yeah, openmosix is in a very stable state, means no public progress.
As i think it will take some time until openmosix for 2.6 is usable and 
i don't have the time to port it to actual kernel versions,
i think its best to remove it from the tree and re-add it some when in 
the future.


Best regards
Michael

Daniel Drake wrote:

Michael Imhof wrote:
If no one else steps up i can maintain openmosix, but my time is quite 
limited. But i think this should be a better option than removing it 
from the tree.


voxus explained in private that openmosix is pretty much a dead project.

If you are interested in seeing this kept around, I suggest you put it 
in an overlay. At least I don't think its feasible to maintain such a 
large and dead codebase in the long term, especially as this includes a 
kernel package.


The reason for me bringing this up is to kick the security vulnerable 
kernels out of the tree (openmosix-sources is one offender). 
Realistically it's a *lot* of work to keep a kernel up to date and 
secure, never mind the rest of openmosix.


Any thoughts on the above?

Daniel


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Re: [gentoo-dev] openmosix maintainer needed

2007-01-02 Thread Konstantin V. Arkhipov
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 21:40, Michael Imhof wrote:
 i think its best to remove it from the tree and re-add it some when in
 the future.

+1.

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[gentoo-dev] openmosix maintainer needed

2007-01-01 Thread Daniel Drake

Hi,

openmosix has been hardmasked for a long time:

# Tim Yamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Aug 2006)
# Security mask
# Bugs #135167, #137623, #137626, #138617, #139321,
# #139475, #139641, #140444, #141503, #142616, #142617
sys-kernel/openmosix-sources
sys-cluster/openmosixview
sys-cluster/openmosixtest
sys-cluster/openmosix-user
sys-cluster/openmosixwebview
sys-cluster/openmosix-3dmon-stats

It should be removed from portage, but as this is quite a big thing I'm 
expressing some haste before kicking it. Is anyone working on bringing 
this back up to date? Any strong objections to the actual removal 
(despite it being hardmasked already)?


Thanks,
Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-dev] openmosix maintainer needed

2007-01-01 Thread Josh Saddler
Daniel Drake wrote:
 Hi,
 
 openmosix has been hardmasked for a long time:
 
 # Tim Yamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07 Aug 2006)
 # Security mask
 # Bugs #135167, #137623, #137626, #138617, #139321,
 # #139475, #139641, #140444, #141503, #142616, #142617
 sys-kernel/openmosix-sources
 sys-cluster/openmosixview
 sys-cluster/openmosixtest
 sys-cluster/openmosix-user
 sys-cluster/openmosixwebview
 sys-cluster/openmosix-3dmon-stats
 
 It should be removed from portage, but as this is quite a big thing I'm
 expressing some haste before kicking it. Is anyone working on bringing
 this back up to date? Any strong objections to the actual removal
 (despite it being hardmasked already)?

Please let the GDP know when and if this package is removed, as we still
have a document for it (though it hasn't been touched since 2003...).

Thanks,

Josh



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