[fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 5/8/06, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/8/06, Tim Burke <tburke at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:53 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then
> > >> shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into
> > >> Fedora?  If not, why not?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I think the reasons why we don't want to do this have been made quite
> > > clear. Its a maintenance nightmare. I already told the OpenVZ folks that
> > > we couldn't have a "VZ enabled" kernel package in Fedora unless it went
> > > into upstream (or they could convince Dave Jones to include it in his
> > > SRPM).
> > >
> > >
> > Just to share some exposure into what it takes to keep a non-standard
> > kernel working in the Fedora tree:
> > - Pretty much a full-time dedicated highly experienced kernel developer
> > to spend the vast majority of their time playing patch monkey to keep up
> > with the high rate of upstream change.  We have someone doing this role
> > for Xen and its more than a fulltime job.  Same thing would have to
> > happen for an OLPC kernel.  Certainly the amount of work is commensurate
> > with the nature of the changes.  Having seen the RT patch set, that is
>

Sorry about that.. my mousepad send the email before I even got started.

I think that this request may fit into more of an Alternatives project
where multiple kernels and other tools might be able to look at.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator