Dear Community!
I've been maintaining Linux-VServer for more than 12 years
now and no worries, I'm not done with it yet.
Over the years the appreciation for me maintaining those
patches I created so many years ago slowly faded and most
Linux-VServer users nowaday take the availability for
granted -- it has been quite a while since somebody picked
an item from my Hardware List [1] and sent it to me.
But today was the first time somebody really managed to get
me angry by basically claiming that 'I do not care anymore',
after asking over and over again 'is it done?' and 'when
will it be done?'
I was so annoyed that I didn't want to continue working on
the 3.13 patch anymore, until I realized, that this would
only hurt the Linux-VServer community.
Since a few years now mainline is working on getting LXC
into a decent shape, and some parts are already useable,
but unfortunately there is still a lot of improvement
necessary.
3.11 changed a number of things which affected Linux-VServer
and the changes in 3.12 and 3.13 didn't make porting the
patch easier, so once again, mainline was a moving target
and it took some time and thinking to get a working patch
done.
Back to positive thinking and good news: a first patch [2]
for 3.13.1 is now available for testing, please let me
know if you encounter any issues or hit any specific
problems with it.
I hope that the beforementioned person will at least have
the decency to do extensive testing on the released patch
and report back with a test case for every tiny aspect
which doesn't work as expected.
Best,
Herbert
[1] http://www.linux-vserver.org/Make_Bertl_Happy_Hardware_List
[2] http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-3.13.1-vs2.3.6.9.diff
Received on Sat Feb 1 04:01:30 2014