[Libvirt-cim] Future of libvirt-cim

[Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)]

On 05/09/2012 01:44 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   I don't now why but the list manager bounced and discarded the
> mail from Anthony to this list, so I'm sending it again.
> 
>   As stated I'm fine taking over maintainance for the project
> (releases, some patch review and commits) but if there is a regain
> of activity and someone show commitment I will be fine handing
> maintainance over :-)
> 

Thank you Daniel very much for taking this responsibility. If you need
any kind of assistance, please don't hesitate to ask, I will be happy to
help whenever possible.

>   W.r.t. closing the list, I think we need a grace period to allow
> people to express dissent if needed (the libvir-list has far more
> traffic) and I will send a couple of reminders before closing if there
> is no opposition.
> 

Agreed, and I also think it is important to keep the achieves accessible
for historic reasons.

>   I guess the fist thing I will do is push the patch from Klaus
> fixing the build with sblim-sfcb,
> 

Indeed. I have a couple of pending patches that were not sent for review
which could be interesting to apply before rolling out the last release.

Sad news, but the show must go on. :)

Best Regards, Eduardo

>   feedback welcome !
> 
> Daniel
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com> -----
> 
>> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 20:46:09 -0500
>> From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com>
>> To: libvirt-cim at redhat.com
>> CC: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>, Dave Allan <dallan at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Future of libvirt-cim
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As some of you may have noticed by the lack of activity on the
>> libvirt-cim ML over the past month, we have decided at IBM to focus
>> on direct consumption of libvirt and oVirt related interfaces
>> meaning that we've stopped actively working on libvirt-cim.
>>
>> Having discussed it a little bit with DV et al, I think it would
>> make sense to close this mailing list and move the traffic to the
>> main libvirt as is done with the other libvirt sub projects.
>>
>> I also think it would make sense to open up commit access to have
>> the same rules as the main libvirt repository does.
>>
>> Does that sound reasonable?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 


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Eduardo de Barros Lima
Software Engineer, Open Virtualization
Linux Technology Center - IBM/Brazil
eblima at br.ibm.com