One can imagine my surprise this morning after checking my mail
before leaving work and having nothing, to arriving at work and finding
a huge thread crossing the pkg-xen-devel, debian-devel and debian-kernel
lists regarding Xen. I, and most of the people on the pkg-xen Alioth
project have spent the past several months trying to get in touch with
Adam Heath regarding his xen packaging without response before finally
deciding to move forward. Since making that decision we've spent several
weeks now working to get the packaging together working as a team.
I find the stance Bastian is taking as a hard-line and consensus
within our team seems to be that he is alone in claiming the kernel team
wishes to maintain Xen. We had full intended to try to coordinate with
the kernel team to produce pre-built kernel images for Xen but did not
want to produce them seperate from the official kernels to keep kernel
images in the archive to a minimum. Our team had determined that
managing Xen would be a lot for any one person, thus we formed the team
and were working to produce highly stable packages. We had made mention
of our intentions on several BTS entries for Xen as well as attempts to
contact the upstream as well as on the Xen wiki.
So to put it quite pointedly is it the *entire* kernel teams intent
to take over and maintain Xen, including the hypervisor, userland tools
and kernel patches/images or is Bastian standing alone on this? As for
the pkg-xen Alioth team we have our xen-3.0-testing packages nearly
complete and then will be tagging and updating to build against
xen-unstable to provide for those that want the stable testing/release
version and the latest development. We feel we've been broadsided by
Bastian at this point as he has already uploaded his packages claiming
the kernel team maintainership while this entire discussion has
occurred. Obviously Bastian failed to notice our intentions from any of
the Xen BTS records currently open and had already been user-tagged for
our team.
This action by Bastian gives the appearance of saying he is
uninterested in any further discussion and is taking unilateral
decisions. We [pkg-xen] had already discussed the situation with Adam
currently being the maintainer of xen, but apparently absent from doing
so, and were going to be posting to debian-devel and uploading to the
DELAYED queue to give even more attempt for discussion and response from
Adam before we took the actual action of uploading the new packaging and
taking over maintainership.
I, and the team, will await to hear a response from the kernel team.
Or is the kernel team spoken for by Bastian alone?
Regards,
Jeremy T. Bouse
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