[Xen-API] Results of Formal vote on Unicore Proposal : Passed & Next Steps

2017-10-12 Thread Lars Kurth
of any highlights and/or presentations to add, we can just go ahead with this 7) Plan some PR (after enough of 1-6 has been done): e.g. blog post, linux.com article, xen-announce announcement, … Regards Lars On 29/09/2017, 13:07, "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrot

Re: [Xen-API] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-21 Thread Lars Kurth
On 18/09/2017, 05:17, "Felipe Huici" wrote: Hi Lars, all, [cc’ing authors of Erlang on Xen, HalVM and Rump]. Thanks everyone for all of the support and useful comments. We’ve incorporated a number of them into a new version of the document

Re: [Xen-API] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-20 Thread Lars Kurth
.hu...@neclab.eu>(co-lead) Florian Schmidt <florian.schm...@neclab.eu> (co-lead) Project Mentor: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Project Sponsor: -To be found- Background -- In recent years, several papers and projects dedica

Re: [Xen-API] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-13 Thread Lars Kurth
t; NEC Europe Limited Registered Office: NEC House, 1 > Victoria Road, London W3 6BL Registered in England 2832014 > > > > > On 9/8/17, 1:00 PM, "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@citrix.com > <mailto:

Re: [Xen-API] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-08 Thread Lars Kurth
@Wei, @Stefano, On 07/09/2017, 22:16, "Stefano Stabellini" wrote: Hi all, I would be glad to sponsor this proposal. I think it will be of great benefit to the ecosystem. Let me know if I need to do anything specific. Basically, all which is needed

Re: [Xen-API] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Lars Kurth
PROPOSAL: Unicore = Roles - Project Leads: Simon Kuenzer <simon.kuen...@neclab.eu> (main lead) Felipe Huici <felipe.hu...@neclab.eu>(co-lead) Florian Schmidt <florian.schm...@neclab.eu> (co-lead) Project Mentor: Lars Kur

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [RFC] Unicore Subproject Proposal

2017-09-07 Thread Lars Kurth
On 07/09/2017, 14:24, "Andrew Cooper" wrote: > Unicore - The "Unikernel Core" > - > The high level goal of Unicore is to be able to build unikernels targeted > at specific applications without requiring the

[Xen-API] Xen Project Developer and Design Summit : PMC, deadline extension for CfP to April 21st and FAQ

2017-04-12 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear Community members, I wanted to briefly announce the Program Management Committee for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit. PMC members will be Julien Grall (ARM), Lars Kurth (Xen Project Chairman), Wei Liu (Citrix). In addition, we extended the CfP deadline to April 21st (23:59

[Xen-API] 2017 Xen Project Developer and Design Summit: CfP open from now to April 14, Event is held July 11-13, 2017 in Budapest

2017-03-14 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear Community Members, I am excited to announce that registration and the call for proposals is open for Xen Project Developer and Design Summit 2017, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from July 11-13, 2017. The Xen Project Developer and Design Summit combines the formats of Xen

[Xen-API] Xen Project Developer and Design Summit location and CfP pre-announcement - also looking for PMC members

2017-03-10 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members, just a quick note to let you know about the upcoming next steps for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit. The event location and date will be Corinthia Hotel, Budapest (http://www.corinthia.com/en/hotels/budapest) July 11- 13 Note that this will be a 3 day

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v5 0/3] Significant changes to Xen Project Governance (governance.html) - COMMITTERS PLEASE VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL

2017-03-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Lars > On 22 Feb 2017, at 12:00, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On 23 Nov 2016, at 12:20, Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> THIS IS VERSION 5 OF THIS PATCH AND WE ARE READY FOR FORMAL VOTING, UNLESS >>

[Xen-API] FYI: GSoC 2017: Xen Project has been accepted as a mentor organization!

2017-02-28 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi everyone, we have been accepted into GSoC this year. This means we will likely have more interest in projects compared to the past and could do with a) more people willing to mentor b) more projects on https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/2017-Summer-Internships

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v5 0/3] Significant changes to Xen Project Governance (governance.html) - COMMITTERS PLEASE VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL

2017-02-22 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 23 Nov 2016, at 12:20, Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote: > > THIS IS VERSION 5 OF THIS PATCH AND WE ARE READY FOR FORMAL VOTING, UNLESS > SOMEONE OBJECTS. PEOPLE LISTED AS COMMITTERS IN > - https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html > - https://x

Re: [Xen-API] [win-pv-devel] [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2017-02-17 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 15 Feb 2017, at 21:09, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >> ... >> > Istinctively, I don't like the idea of splitting up the hypervisor > project in multiple projects. We could split out the following git repos: mini-os, osstest, raisin,

Re: [Xen-API] [win-pv-devel] [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2017-02-15 Thread Lars Kurth
the area which is not agreed as is. However, that is still quite a bit of work, and won't solve the underlying problem. Ian's comments below summarise the situation quite clearly. > On 2 Dec 2016, at 19:06, Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2

[Xen-API] Update: Developer Summit and Hackathon this year

2017-02-08 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi everyone, a quick note to let you know about the status of this year's Hackathon and Developer Summit. We are running a little bit late in terms of planning, because the board asked me in November to investigate co-location with OSCON, OpenStack and a few other industry events instead of

[Xen-API] Preparing for GSoC, Outreachy and other Internships (deadline Feb 9th)

2017-02-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Folks, (people who have current projects are CC'ed) I just created https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/2017-Summer-Internships and https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Category:Internships as we are planning to apply as mentoring organisation for GSoC 2017 again. To be successful, we need to bring

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-12-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 01/12/2016 22:36, "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: >On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision >>making; some new roles and minor changes"): >> &g

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-12-01 Thread Lars Kurth
On 01/12/2016 22:36, "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: >On Thu, 1 Dec 2016, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision >>making; some new roles and minor changes"): >> &g

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v5 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-12-01 Thread Lars Kurth
On 30/11/2016 23:27, "Stefano Stabellini" <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: >On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> -Formal Votes {#formal-votes} >> - >> - >> -Sometimes it is necessary to conduct formal voting within the >

[Xen-API] FYI: Your [FOSDEM] stand proposal for Xen Project has been accepted

2016-11-26 Thread Lars Kurth
in touch with me Lars > Begin forwarded message: > > From: FOSDEM Stands Team <sta...@fosdem.org> > Subject: Your stand proposal for Xen Project has been accepted > Date: 25 November 2016 22:06:33 GMT > To: "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@xenproject.org> > >

[Xen-API] [PATCH v5 0/3] Significant changes to Xen Project Governance (governance.html) - COMMITTERS PLEASE VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL

2016-11-23 Thread Lars Kurth
THIS IS VERSION 5 OF THIS PATCH AND WE ARE READY FOR FORMAL VOTING, UNLESS SOMEONE OBJECTS. PEOPLE LISTED AS COMMITTERS IN - https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/hypervisor.html - https://xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html PLEASE VOTE BEFORE DEC 2nd I made some significant proposed

[Xen-API] [PATCH v5 1/3] Code motion changes to make real patches easier to read

2016-11-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Added TOC Re-arranged sections compared to previous version of document Added new anchors where needed Split Roles section into two sections The actual content was not changed (with the exception of minor typos that I spotted) Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH v3 4/4] Addressed comments on quorum and security team members

2016-10-04 Thread Lars Kurth
On 03/10/2016 17:27, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >Lars Kurth writes ("[PATCH v3 4/4] Addressed comments on quorum and >security team members"): >> Main changes >> Leadership team decisions: express quorum in terms of +1 votes &

[Xen-API] [PATCH v3 4/4] Addressed comments on quorum and security team members

2016-09-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Main changes Leadership team decisions: express quorum in terms of +1 votes Security Team Members: election Project Wide Decision Making: minor text changes Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- governance.pandoc | 45 ++--- 1 file c

[Xen-API] [PATCH v3 1/4] Code motion changes to make real patches easier to read

2016-09-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Added TOC Re-arranged sections compared to previous version of document Added new anchors where needed Split Roles section into two sections The actual content was not changed (with the exception of minor typos that I spotted) Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.

[Xen-API] [PATCH v3 0/4] Significant changes to Xen Project Governance (governance.html)

2016-09-23 Thread Lars Kurth
I made some significant proposed changes to governance.html based on a number of issues that were raised in a number of surveys last year, and via other means, as well as in the recent discussions related to governance.html changes (the issue of too many committers in XAPI and XAPI being able

[Xen-API] [PATCH v3 3/4] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-09-23 Thread Lars Kurth
based scheme Clarified scope of Decision making Modified sections which have dependencies on changes about Fixed various typos Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- governance.pandoc | 606 ++ 1 file changed, 474 inse

[Xen-API] [PATCH v3 2/4] Added document containing governance related todo list

2016-09-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Contains items that at some point need to be addressed. The items do not directly affect governance.pandoc Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- governance.todo | 23 +++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 governance.todo diff

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-09-09 Thread Lars Kurth
On 16/08/2016 06:32, "Tim Deegan" <t...@xen.org> wrote: >Hi, > >At 14:55 + on 15 Aug (1471272946), Lars Kurth wrote: >> But I see your point. The text should really have said something like... >> - >> In situations where the entire Xen Project

[Xen-API] Winter Outreachy round - please update projects

2016-09-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, the Winter Outreachy round is coming up. Given that the winter round is typically a little quieter and we do not have an extensive list of projects, I only requested funding for 1 slot in this round. Please update starter projects, add new ones, etc. to

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-09-06 Thread Lars Kurth
On 26/08/2016 10:51, "Wei Liu" <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 03:35:38PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> >> On 26/08/2016 07:49, "Wei Liu" <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >> >On Sat, Aug 13,

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-08-26 Thread Lars Kurth
On 26/08/2016 07:49, "Wei Liu" <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: >On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 09:28:49AM +, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> >> On 12/08/2016 14:01, "Jan Beulich" <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: >> >> >>>> On 12.0

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-08-15 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Tim, >At 00:13 +0100 on 12 Aug (1470960826), Lars Kurth wrote: >> +### Conflict Resolution {#conflict} >> + >> +Sub-projects and teams hosted on Xenproject.org are not democracies >>but >> +meritocracies. In situations where there is disagreement on issues

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-08-13 Thread Lars Kurth
On 12/08/2016 14:01, "Jan Beulich" wrote: On 12.08.16 at 14:53, wrote: >> On 12/08/2016 13:41, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >> On 12.08.16 at 01:13, wrote: +### Lazy Consensus {#lazyconsensus} +

Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-08-12 Thread Lars Kurth
On 12/08/2016 13:41, "Jan Beulich" wrote: On 12.08.16 at 01:13, wrote: >> +### Lazy Consensus {#lazyconsensus} >> + >> +Lazy Consensus is a useful technique to make decisions for specific >>proposals >> +which are not covered by the Review Then

[Xen-API] [PATCH 1/3] Code motion changes to make real patches easier to read

2016-08-11 Thread Lars Kurth
Added TOC Re-arranged sections compared to previous version of document Added new anchors where needed Split Roles section into two sections The actual content was not changed (with the exception of minor typos that I spotted) Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.

[Xen-API] [PATCH 2/3] Added comment sections to highight problem areas

2016-08-11 Thread Lars Kurth
These are marked by - ... - blocks that will be removed in the published version Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- governance.

[Xen-API] [PATCH 3/3] Significant changes to decision making; some new roles and minor changes

2016-08-11 Thread Lars Kurth
dependencies on changes about Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- governance.pandoc | 714 -- 1 file changed, 535 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-) diff --git a/governance.pandoc b/governance.pandoc index 86e4433..b824c7f

[Xen-API] [PATCH 0/3] Significant changes to Xen Project Governance (governance.html)

2016-08-11 Thread Lars Kurth
I made some significant proposed changes to governance.html based on a number of issues that were raised in a number of surveys last year, and via other means, as well as in the recent discussions related to governance.html changes (the issue of too many committers in XAPI and XAPI being able

[Xen-API] Maintenance on wiki.xenproject.org : Wed Aug 10, 8:00 - 9:00 UTC

2016-08-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, just a quick note that we are upgrading the MediaWiki instance on Wed Aug 10, from 8:00 - 9:00 UTC. During this time, the wiki will be disabled for up to 15 minutes while we copy the database into the updated Wiki installation. Should you have any problems after the upgrade, please

[Xen-API] Xen Project Developer Summit : program Published

2016-06-08 Thread Lars Kurth
We recently announced the program and speakers [1] for our Xen Project Developer Summit [2] happening in Toronto, Canada from August 25-26, 2016. The event will be co-located with LinuxCon North America [3]. The Xen Project hypervisor powers the new needs of computing and virtualization

[Xen-API] [Vote Results] Minor change to governance document at http://www.xenproject.org/developers/governance.html (Vote before May 16th)

2016-05-17 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, please find below the tally of the following vote http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-05/msg00801.html covering the attached change to our governance 5 votes (3 from Hypervisor Committers, 2 from XAPI committers), all with +1, so it carries Best Regards Lars ---

[Xen-API] [Vote] Minor change to governance document at http://www.xenproject.org/developers/governance.html (Vote before May 16th)

2016-05-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, as per the RFC at http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-04/msg03191.html which received no concrete feedback other than it looks good, I want to call a formal vote on this proposal. As the proposal affects all subprojects, committers from the Hypervisor and XAPI

[Xen-API] Don’t Miss your Chance to Speak at Xen Project Developer Summit (CfP closes May 6th)

2016-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, just a quick reminder that the CfP for the Xen Project Developer Summit which is held in Toronto from May 25-26th closes on May the 6th, 2016 at 11:59 pm PST, which is less than two weeks from now. For the CfP submission link, follow

Re: [Xen-API] Xen Project Infrastructure Maintenance: Feb 22nd from 8:00 AM UTC (to fix CVE-2015-7547)

2016-02-22 Thread Lars Kurth
A quick note to let you know that all machines have been rebooted Lars > On 19 Feb 2016, at 11:59, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > due to the recently discovered glibc security vulnerability we need to reboot > all our VMs: this wi

[Xen-API] Xen Project Infrastructure Maintenance: Feb 22nd from 8:00 AM UTC (to fix CVE-2015-7547)

2016-02-19 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi everyone, due to the recently discovered glibc security vulnerability we need to reboot all our VMs: this will affect the blog, bugs, etherpad, lists, mail, wiki and xenbits. Each service should only be unavailable for 5 minutes. If you notice any issues after the reboot please reply to

Re: [Xen-API] Urgent: Cleaning up project list in preparation for GSoc and the next Outreachy round

2016-02-10 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 9 Feb 2016, at 12:36, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com > <mailto:lars.kurth@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > GSoc mentor organisation applications are opening and as such we need to get > our project list into shape: the current list of proje

[Xen-API] Urgent: Cleaning up project list in preparation for GSoc and the next Outreachy round

2016-02-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi folks, GSoc mentor organisation applications are opening and as such we need to get our project list into shape: the current list of projects are at http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects and https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects The application

[Xen-API] Xen Project Hackathon, Cambridge UK, Apr 18-19 - registration, hotels and other information

2016-01-13 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I just put together the booking page for the next Hackathon. See http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Hackathon/April2016 for more information. * If you are a maintainer or otherwise a core member of the community, just add yourself to the Confirmed Attendees section stating your name and

[Xen-API] Save the Date: Xen Project Hackathon 2016 (Location: Cambridge UK, Dates 18-19 April 2016)

2015-12-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi everyone, I am pleased to inform you that ARM will host the 2016 Hackathon at their site in Cambridge, UK. The Hackathon will take place April 18 & 19. I will put together more information (wiki, blog posts, ...) in the new year! Best Regards Lars

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] 2016 Xen Dev Summit Location (input needed before next Thu)

2015-11-06 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 6 Nov 2015, at 11:44, David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 05/11/15 18:31, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We have the following options * Hold it on Monday Oct 3 - to Tue Oct >> 4 : the problem is that Oct 3 is a public holiday i

[Xen-API] 2016 Xen Dev Summit Location (input needed before next Thu)

2015-11-05 Thread Lars Kurth
r 2015 17:32:11 GMT > To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@xen.org> > > Hi Lars, > > Sorry for the delay in getting back to you as we had to get a few things > sorted. > > First the bad news. It turns out that Monday, October 3, 2016 is German Unity > Day and we've dec

[Xen-API] OutreachY Proposed candidate selection process and FAQ

2015-09-28 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi, I have been getting a few questions related to the Outreachy program from mentors. So I put together an FAQ Q: How many slots do we have (across Xen, Mirage OS, XAPI) A: We have two slots. But we do have quite *a lot* of interest both in Xen as well as in Mirage OS so far. I have funds for

[Xen-API] OutreachY round 11 - Please add new sensible projects

2015-09-22 Thread Lars Kurth
now how up-to-date these are). Best Regards Lars > On 17 Sep 2015, at 14:00, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > the AB is sponsoring 2 interns again for the winter round > > This means we need to update the following pages by September 28 >

[Xen-API] June Advisory Board Minutes and Votes

2015-06-25 Thread Lars Kurth
See * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/June_2015_Minutes http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/June_2015_Minutes * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Votes/COLO-Contracts-June2015

[Xen-API] Outreachy / OPW application deadline on March 24th

2015-03-19 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I have not seen anyone applying for Outreachy or working on any small projects for Xen Project. But then I spot checked a number of mailing lists for other orgs participating and it has not been that different for the other projects I checked. It is possible that the name change is

[Xen-API] GSoC 2015 - Not accepted ... but some mentoring organisations which have several Xen related projects in them are

2015-03-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi folks, just a quick note to let you know that we were not accepted for GSoC this year. Do note that the Linux Foundation, OpenStack Foundation and many of the other usual suspects have not been accepted this year. We will find out more why on Friday. However, there are at least 4 Xen

Re: [Xen-API] More details on the Hackathon, Shangai April 28-29

2015-02-24 Thread Lars Kurth
this will be resolved until next week. We may also need to start/end a little bit earlier depending on traffic. Best Regards Lars On 11 Feb 2015, at 17:05, Lars Kurth lars.kurth@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to touch base with you regarding details for the Hackathon. I am

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] More details on the Hackathon, Shangai April 28-29

2015-02-24 Thread Lars Kurth
Apologies. That was a copy and paste oversight from copying last year's page, which is now fixed. It is April 28-29 I am grateful for you guys being such good peer reviewers Lars On 24 Feb 2015, at 13:50, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 24.02.15 at 14:13, lars.kurth@gmail.com

[Xen-API] 2015 GSoC Application : Tick

2015-02-13 Thread Lars Kurth
Just a quick note that I filled out the GSoC Mentoring Organisation application today If you have not done so, please read and act on http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-02/msg00902.html http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-02/msg00902.html before Feb

[Xen-API] IMPORTANT: GSoC 2015 page created - Need to confirm old projects, create/review new ones and fix projects with issues before Feb 22nd

2015-02-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, the deadline for Orgs to apply for GSoc 2015 is coming up. Organisations need to apply before Feb 22nd. One of the things that is crucial that the project list is up-to-date and that there is activity on the wiki page. Google uses this as one of the main criteria to accept projects. =

Re: [Xen-API] Hackathon date options in Shanghai : please vote for a preference by Wed the 3rd of Feb (confirmed Option 2: April 28-29)

2015-02-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, seems the overwhelming majority has chosen - Option 2: April 28-29 - I will work with Intel on the details and send these out as soon as I have final confirmation Best Regards Lars On 28 Jan 2015, at 10:09, Lars Kurth lars.kurth@gmail.com wrote: Dear community members, Intel

Re: [Xen-API] [URGENT] Please review tasks for OPW Round 9

2014-10-22 Thread Lars Kurth
As well as Mirage projects. So adding MirageOS-devel to CC Also adding EVERYONE who has a project on http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects If you have a new project and you can mentor from Oct 22 - March 2015, please add it to the LIST If you can’t mentor, please take your

[Xen-API] September Advisory Board Minutes + Off-Line Votes

2014-10-20 Thread Lars Kurth
See * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/September_2014_Minutes * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Votes/2014_Xen_Project_Summit_in_Seattle * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Votes/Post_XSA_108_PR_-_Clarification * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Votes/STARTUP_membership_class

[Xen-API] [Update] Location of next Xen Project Developer Summit / User Summit

2014-10-14 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, a quick update on the location of next year’s Developer / User summit. As I mentioned earlier, LinuxCon US will be in Seattle Aug 17-19 and Linux Plumbers will be hosted from Aug 19 - 21st in Seattle. I provisionally booked space with the Linux Foundation for the Xen Project from Aug

Re: [Xen-API] [win-pv-devel] Location of next Xen Project Developer Summit / User Summit (please respond by end of September)

2014-09-19 Thread Lars Kurth
On 18 Sep 2014, at 01:58, Paul Durrant paul.durr...@citrix.com wrote: * The problem is that this would be a very intensive week and that some people may have to juggle schedules as they may have to attend several events. Indeed. Do we really want to be at the same time as KVM forum? I

[Xen-API] Created xenproject page and wiki categories for Windows PV Driver project

2014-09-03 Thread Lars Kurth
FYI: not everything is there yet, but we are getting there Lars Begin forwarded message: From: Lars Kurth lars.kurth@gmail.com Subject: Created xenproject page and wiki categories Date: 3 September 2014 17:56:04 BST To: win-pv-de...@lists.xenproject.org Cc: paul.durr...@citrix.com Hi

[Xen-API] [Vote Results] Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Project Proposal - closes July 23rd

2014-07-29 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I just counted the votes and we have 5 in favour and no against. That means the proposal carries Lars On 15 Jul 2014, at 12:21, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: Hi all, in accordance with http://xenproject.org/governance.html it is time to vote on Embedded and Automotive PV

[Xen-API] [Maintainer vote] Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Project Proposal - closes July 23rd

2014-07-15 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, in accordance with http://xenproject.org/governance.html it is time to vote on Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Project Proposal (or http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Embedded_and_Automotive_PV_Drivers_Project_Proposal). The vote is open for a week as usual. All maintainers of

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [For Community Review] Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Sub-Project Proposal (deadline July 11th)

2014-07-14 Thread Lars Kurth
On 09/07/2014 12:46, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 12:28 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: To build these drivers, the QNX GNU libc variant is used (licensed under GPL). Not LGPL? QNX using GPL for it's libc seems like an odd choice for them, since it requires anything

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [Input Needed] GitDM Config files privacy

2014-07-14 Thread Lars Kurth
On 10/07/2014 17:40, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 16:14 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, I was in the process of publishing GitDM including config files in my personal xenbits repository, such that other community members can run contribution stats. However the config files

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [For Community Review] Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Sub-Project Proposal (deadline July 11th)

2014-07-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Anil, thank you for the feedback. I will need to let Artem and Alex answer your questions. I merely copied and pasted these from a document Regards Lars On 01/07/2014 14:56, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: On 1 Jul 2014, at 12:53, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: Hi all, the Embedded

[Xen-API] [Input Needed] GitDM Config files privacy

2014-07-09 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I was in the process of publishing GitDM including config files in my personal xenbits repository, such that other community members can run contribution stats. However the config files contain email addresses and thus there may be a potential privacy issue. Config files contain *

[Xen-API] [For Community Review] Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Sub-Project Proposal (deadline July 11th)

2014-07-01 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, the Embedded and Automotive PV Drivers Sub-Project Proposal (see http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Embedded_and_Automotive_PV_Drivers_Project_Proposal) is now open for community review. Please provide feedback by replying to this thread or using the Comment feature (see

[Xen-API] Fwd: Archiving PVOPS and Xen on ARM as stand-alone subprojects

2014-06-27 Thread Lars Kurth
Forgot to add these two lists Lars Original Message Subject:Archiving PVOPS and Xen on ARM as stand-alone subprojects Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:55:38 +0100 From: Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org Reply-To: lars.ku...@xen.org To: xen-de...@lists.xen.org xen-de

[Xen-API] Xen Project Developer Meeting Confirmed, Aug 20, 9:30 - 13:00, Chicago - Sign up ready

2014-06-19 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, after your feedback, we will hold the Developer Meeting from 9:30 - 13:00. To sign up on or add topics please either * modify http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Developer_Meeting/Aug2014 (my preferred option) - if you don't have write access to ther wiki, fill out

Re: [Xen-API] Xapi Project 2.0 release

2014-06-18 Thread Lars Kurth
On 03/06/2014 14:26, Jon Ludlam wrote: On 03/06/14 11:19, Lars Kurth wrote: Jon, you should consider a blog post on blog.xenproject.org for increased visibility Lars Good idea. I'll start drafting... Jon Jon, we brought this up at the Advisory Board meeting. If you want you can have

[Xen-API] [Vote Summary] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Project Proposal Approved

2014-06-18 Thread Lars Kurth
to carefully message this to avoid confusion. I had discussed this with Stefano and Konrad, who agree in principle. We also need to look at other upcoming PR for Mirage OS 2.0 (mid July), XAPI 2.0 (TBD) and load balance. Best Regards Lars On 10/06/14 13:03, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, in accordance

Re: [Xen-API] Xapi project repositories

2014-06-10 Thread Lars Kurth
Lars From: Jonathan Ludlam Sent: 10 June 2014 10:48 To: xen-api@lists.xen.org; mirageos-de...@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Lars Kurth Subject: Xapi project repositories Hi all, In preparing for the 2.0 release, it's become increasingly obvious that we really

[Xen-API] [Vote for approval by XAPI and Hypervisor maintainers] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Project Proposal (closing June 17th)

2014-06-10 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, in accordance with http://xenproject.org/governance.html it is time to vote on http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Windows_PV_Drivers_Incubation_Project_Proposal All maintainers of mature Xen Project sub-projects can vote, which includes the Hypervisor and XAPI project. The list of

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] [vote on timing] Xen Project Developer Meeting on August 20th AM in Chicago

2014-06-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Seems there is an overwhelming majority for the morning so far. I will try and start as early possible and move the board meeting to the afternoon Regards Lars On 05/06/2014 18:54, Jim Fehlig wrote: Lars Kurth wrote: Hi everyone, I have more information related to the meeting. * I have space

Re: [Xen-API] [vote on timing] Xen Project Developer Meeting on August 20th AM in Chicago

2014-06-05 Thread Lars Kurth
who both have talks from 12:15 - 13:05 no-one else has really an overlap. So what I am asking is for options: please vote +1 09:30 - 13:00 +1 10:30 - 14:00 +1 13:00 - 16:30 Best Regards Lars On 02/06/2014 17:22, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, I am pleased to announce that I secured space for a 1/2

[Xen-API] May Advisory Board minutes posted

2014-06-05 Thread Lars Kurth
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/AB_Meeting/May_2014_Minutes ___ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api

Re: [Xen-API] [For community review] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Sub-project Proposal

2014-06-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Seems nobody had any significant comments Will set up a formal vote next week Lars On 28/05/2014 13:42, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, please find attached a link to a new subproject to proposal to host and develop the Windows PV drivers. The proposal is at http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki

[Xen-API] [Hackathon] xapi 2.0 session

2014-06-03 Thread Lars Kurth
Attendees: - John Garbutt (rackspace) - olivier lambert (Vates) -julien fontanet (Vates) - Jon Ludlam (Citrix) - Anil Madhavapeddy (Cambridge University) - Nik Sultana (Cambridge University) JonL: time for a release! All: yay! So what is it? Goals of xapi 2 are: avoid source level patches to

Re: [Xen-API] Xapi Project 2.0 release

2014-06-03 Thread Lars Kurth
Jon, you should consider a blog post on blog.xenproject.org for increased visibility Lars On 02/06/2014 13:59, Jon Ludlam wrote: Hi all, It's about time we had a release! There has been a huge amount of effort been spent over the last year or so since we joined the Linux Foundation, and

Re: [Xen-API] Hackathon Follow-up @ Please post session notes on the list (and send me picture)

2014-06-03 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I started posting links to minutes on http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Hackathon#May_2014_.5BHackathon_Minutes.5D, such that they are all in one place Lars On 02/06/2014 11:22, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, I trust the remainder of the Hackathon went well and I hope the evening event was fun

[Xen-API] Hackathon Follow-up @ Please post session notes on the list (and send me picture)

2014-06-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I trust the remainder of the Hackathon went well and I hope the evening event was fun. I have to apologize again for having to leave on Thursday night and hope I didn't give the flu I am still battling with to anyone. May I ask you to post session notes on the mailing list labelling

[Xen-API] [For community review] Windows PV Drivers Incubation Sub-project Proposal

2014-05-28 Thread Lars Kurth
of the driver code. * Project Sponsor: Matt Wilson - Matt is Xen Project AB member representing Amazon * Project Mentor: Lars Kurth - Lars is the Community Manager for the Xen Project and has agreed to act as the project’s Mentor. === Background === ParaVirtualization aware (PV) device drivers

[Xen-API] Schedule and additional information for the Hackathon published

2014-05-22 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I just published some information related to the Hackathon schedule at http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Hackathon/May2014#Schedule - I will send another mail to registered attendees, when I get the list of e-mail addresses of all registered people from the Linux Foundation. == Registration

[Xen-API] [Need input] Proposal to change committers for the XAPI Project - implications for the whole project?

2014-05-16 Thread Lars Kurth
On 15/05/2014 10:19, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: On 15 May 2014, at 09:57, Lars Kurth lars.ku...@xen.org wrote: All the existing committers have voted in favour. So the proposal carries. I will update the XAPI webpage http://www.xenproject.org/developers/teams/xapi.html accordingly Lars

Re: [Xen-API] Proposal to change committers for the XAPI Project

2014-05-15 Thread Lars Kurth
Jon, at some point we should do an intro blog post as well. But we have a fairly full PR pipeline right now Lars ___ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api

[Xen-API] Xen Project Developer Summit Update : CfP closes in two days

2014-05-14 Thread Lars Kurth
scheduling and other embedded technologies. He now works on various Xen Project components and is the Xen Project Blog Czar. * *Lars Kurth (Chairman of the Xen Project Advisory Board):*Lars has been working as Community Manager for the Xen Project for 3 years now and also chairs the Xen

Re: [Xen-API] project lead nomination

2014-05-14 Thread Lars Kurth
On 13/05/2014 15:19, Jon Ludlam wrote: Thanks all. So my first act as project lead is to attempt to demote everyone who voted for me. For the best possible reasons, of course :-) The current list of committers is very much at odds with the real state of the xapi project, and I suspect it

Re: [Xen-API] Proposal to change committers for the XAPI Project

2014-05-14 Thread Lars Kurth
As community manager I can vote and vote in favour +1 -Original Message- From: Jonathan Ludlam Sent: 14 May 2014 17:28 To: xen-...@lists.xenproject.org; Paul Durrant; Simon Rowe; Keith Petley Cc: Lars Kurth; Dave Scott; John Else; Simon Beaumont; Rob Hoes; Thanos Makatos; Zheng Li (3P

Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] Extending Xen Project CfP until May the 12th (actually the 16th)

2014-05-06 Thread Lars Kurth
11:32, Lars Kurth wrote:n Hi all, I had a number of requests to extend the Xen Project Developer Summit CfP by a few days. Also, we had some technical difficulties last week, which meant that not everyone was able to submit their talks. As such, I will leave the CfP open until May 12th, but we

[Xen-API] Documenbt Day is on Today

2014-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, just a quick reminder that today is a Doccument Day. For our TODO list and more info see * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Document_Days/TODO * http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Document_Days Regards Lars What is a Xen Project Document Day? Xen Project document days are

[Xen-API] Issues submitting Xen Project Developer Talks - resolved

2014-04-29 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi, there was an issue with submitting talks to the Xen Project Developer Summit this morning. This has been resolved. If there are any furthjer issues, please let me know Regards Lars ___ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@lists.xen.org

Re: [Xen-API] project lead nomination

2014-04-28 Thread Lars Kurth
Paul, you trechnically still need to vote . As community manager, I can also vote, so +1 from me Votes are typically open for a week. It will close on Friday the 2nd Lars On 25/04/2014 16:34, Simon Rowe wrote: On 25/04/14 16:31, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, the process to confirm Jon would

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