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Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15"): > Right - 4.4.3 already was released with just one RC, and indeed I > meant to stay with that model considering the little (if any) feedback > we get on these RCs. I personally could live without doing any RCs, > but [...] Having had the chance to reflect I am convinced that we...

>>> On 08.09.15 at 12:49, <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com> wrote: > Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15"): >> Right - 4.4.3 already was released with just one RC, and indeed I >> meant to stay with that model considering the little (if any) feedback >> we get on these RCs. I personally could live without doing any RCs, >> but [...] > > Having had the chance to refl...

>>> On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > Release cycle > ============= > > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like > to see a release after any large security update. > > We asked if the RCs for stable releases were valuable, the answer was > "not so much". > > Waldi would prefer to

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 18:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ian Campbell, le Tue 08 Sep 2015 17:15:40 +0100, a ?crit : > > Is it at all possible (even theoretically) to take a shared library > > (which > > is relocatable as required) and to do a compile time static linking > > pass on > > it? i.e. use libfoo.so but still do static linking? > > ? gcc test.c

>>> On 08.09.15 at 12:15, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 03:47 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> > > > On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: >> > Release cycle >> > ============= >> > >> > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like >> > to see

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 03:47 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > > Release cycle > > ============= > > > > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like > > to see a release after any large security update. > > > > We asked if the RCs for stable releases

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can > provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_ the application? It sound s like it builds but the name suggests otherwise. > Rumprun also provides > toolchain wrappers so that you can compile

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Stubdomains When I passed these notes around internally for sanity checking we ended up discussing this issue, since we decided it would be better to move this to xen-devel I'm quoting the thread below with permission. It was a bit tricky to flatten the thread into a single mail, but it wasn't too "branchy" so I think

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 18:38 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > On 08/09/15 16:15, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > > > > > For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can > > > provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. > > > > I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_

On 08/09/15 16:15, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > >> For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can >> provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. > > I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_ the application? It sound > s like it builds but the name suggests otherwise. For all

Hi, Wei Liu hinted that I should "chime in and / or provide corrections" (his words). I'll attempt to do exactly that by not really replying to anything specific. For the record, when I say "we" in this mail, I mean "people who have contributed to the rump kernel project" (as also indicated by the email-hat). First of all, there's a difference between

Xen upstream BoF ================ We had a discussion around Xen and packaging at Debian's annual developer conference (Debconf) a few weeks back: https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/279/xen-upstream-bof/ These are my notes, I think there is probably stuff of interest to most distro people, not just Debian folks. The session was scheduled in a small, out of the way, room. Around 2 dozen people attended including: Ian Jackson Bastian Blank ("waldi", curr...