Re: Place for userland swsusp parts

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Jan 13 2006 - 06:25:39 EST


Hi,

On Friday, 13 January 2006 01:21, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:15, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > Is there some place where we could put userland swsusp parts under
> > > > > version control?
> > > > >
> > > > > swsusp.sf.net looks like possible place, but it has been in use by
> > > > > suspend2... Is it still being used? If not, would it be possible to
> > > > > "hijack" it for swsusp development?
> > > >
> > > > It's not still being used (we have suspend2.net now). The only problem I see
> > > > with that is that it still has all the old suspend2 stuff and Sourceforge
> > > > make it really hard to clear out a project's files. You were talking about
> > > > calling it uswsusp or something like that. How about starting a
> > > > uswsusp.sf.net?
> > >
> > > Rafael, do you have repository to place userland parts in, or should I
> > > start uswsusp.sf.net project, or do you want to do it?
> >
> > I think I can host them (the box is moving tomorrow, hopefully, so it should get
> > enough bandwidth ;-)), but I'm afraid I won't have time to set up a mailing list
> > etc.
>
> Actually, it would probably be better to put it on sourceforge or
> something like that. That way you don't have to care about sysadmin
> stuff (mailing lists etc), backups, backup conectivity, etc, etc.

Agreed.

> > IMHO uswsusp.sf.net would be too similar to swsusp.sf.net, especially that
> > swsusp.sf.net is redirected to www.suspend2.net.
>
> Or maybe we can get hosting on suspend2.net? Or create
> userswsusp.sf.net (that name is ugly :-().

suspend.sf.net seems to be available. We can use it, I think.

> ...some revision control would be nice, but perhaps revision control
> is enough and we can just put git tree on kernel.org?

IMHO quilt will suffice to manage patches, at least for starters, but we'll
need a mailing list and an intro web page.

Greetings,
Rafael

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