From: Matt Ayres (matta_at_tektonic.net)
Date: Tue 30 Sep 2003 - 19:32:43 BST

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Hi Herbert!

I would just like to say that I am 100% behind you on this. A change
had to be made and this was a good choice. I hope to see a much better
structured and organized vserver project in the future.

Thanks!

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Matt Ayres
TekTonic
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:35, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> Dear VServer Community!
> 
> In reaction to several requests on the IRC channel and 
> some emails, I am willing to 'officially' take over the 
> VServer project, with the 1st of November, if, and only 
> if, I don't receive any objection until this date.
> 
> This is no hostile take over, and when Jacques returns
> (I'm still in hope he does) I will not refuse to transfer
> the leadership for this project.
> 
> I would like to improve the vserver development and user
> interaction in several ways, but I WILL need YOUR help.
> 
> Here is a list of ideas/plans in no particular order,
> and I would be glad to receive your comments:
> 
> a) Setup a new mailing list, (probably mailman) with
>    automated archive, spam filter and lower latency.
>   
> b) Provide an one-stop web location, by creating a 
>    static copy of Jacques web pages to preserve this 
>    information, and integrate them and other pages 
>    into the 'all-new' structured 13thfloor web pages 
>    (which will be available soon ;)
> 
> c) Provide a 'stable' vserver release for every kernel 
>    release (2.4 and as soon as available for 2.6 too)    
> 
> d) Setup a VServer User Wiki including a 'central'
>    storage for addons, patches, tools, etc
>    
> e) Setup a (nightly) build/test system, which builds
>    and test all useful combinations of patches, and
>    generates 'all-in-one' patches for several kernel
>    versions.
>  
> f) Put all vserver related tools and patches into a
>    distributed revision control system (probably arch)
>    to allow easy maintainance of different branches.
> 
> What help would be needed/appreciated?
> 
> 1) somebody configuring and maintaining the mailing list
> 2) somebody providing the enormous disk space required to
>    do automated kernel building and testing (more details
>    on that in a later posting)
> 3) somebody moderating the user wiki (creating major 
>    categories, checking links, etc..) (I can provide the
>    wiki as the engine seems to work for the Linux2.6 one)
>    
> thanks in advance,
> Herbert

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