Re: Debian kernel maintainter takeover
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:15:56PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote:
>
> 1. How and who will take over the lead of kernel maintenance?
I do hope that Herbert stays the kernel maintainer.
> 2. Where will we have the kernel sources? Will these reside in a CVS? Or
> bitkeeper?
Bitkeeper? How many people would be able to read that? Not that it matters,
since Herbert is going to stay the maintainer, right? Or has there been a
definite resignment yet?
> 3. The current kernel source is quite different from the vanilla kernel.
> Should we try to maintain the extensive set of patches that are applied
> to the Debian kernel (and are not Debian specific)? Or should we revert
> to the vanilla kernel and not backport things from 2.6.x kernel to 2.4.x
> (eg. IPsec)?
>
> IMHO, I would think that the best way to go would be with the vanilla
> kernel or as close as possible to vanilla kernel, but I would like to
> get some other opinions.
I don't know where he gets the patches from, but I think a big part is the
removal of non-free drivers. Not something I would want to dig through...
Those probably still have to be removed, if I interpret the outcome of the
latest vote correctly. Kinda rules out bitkeeper, too I would think.
Christian
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