Re: [Xen-API] Xapi project repositories

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Jun 2014, at 12:24, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Third, we have some libraries that are actually mirage core libraries.
>> These should transfer over to the mirage organisation (remaining in LF,
>> as mirage is a Xen Project subproject like xapi):
> 
> There are also a couple of libraries that I've developed while I was in 
> Citrix (and still continue to maintain since then) which are used by xapi and 
> which I could move to the mirage organisation as well:
> 
> - https://github.com/samoht/ocaml-rpc
> - https://github.com/samoht/ocaml-tar (which has been forked by djs55)

Moving both of those to Mirage makes sense to me, as they're policy-free and 
fairly easy to plugin.  Ocaml-tar in particular seems to have done the rounds 
among all the organizations :-)

-anil



> What do you think ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
>> 
>> - ocaml-gnt
>> OCaml grant table manipulation. This code originated in the mirage
>> project and was put here when it was split out of mirage-platform (see
>> here:
>> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-platform/commit/f532fc79af41e0e39b624a8e63dffc900bf1b7e4).
>> 
>> - ocaml-xenstore
>> This is the mirage implementation of a xenstore client library. Required
>> for running mirage kernels on xen. We use the unix-flavour of this
>> library. It also contains a WIP new version of the guts of a xenstore
>> daemon, which will be a mirage-style unix process _or_ unikernel
>> (xenstore stub-domain!) that should eventually be upstreamed into xen.
>> 
>> - ocaml-xenstore-clients
>> Slightly oddly named library that defines the unix transport mechanisms
>> (unix-domain sockets) for using the ocaml-xenstore library. This is the
>> unix counterpart to the internal shared-page mechanism used by mirage
>> unikernels.
>> 
>> - ocaml-evtchn
>> Similar to ocaml-gnt - split from the main mirage code at around the
>> same time as ocaml-gnt.
>> 
>> - ocaml-xenstore-xen
>> Unused by xapi-project. I believe in here lives the code that turns the
>> xenstore daemon library from ocaml-xenstore into the actual xenstored
>> stubdomain or process.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We have a few repositories that are forks of upstream repos with some of
>> our own changes in. We should get these changes upstreamed at some
>> point, but for now we should leave them there, but recognise that these
>> aren't necessarily part of the official Xapi Project (excepting where
>> they are, e.g. ocaml-xen-lowlevel-libs, which is a staging area for
>> upstreaming back into xen.git!)
>> - oclock
>> - ocamltest
>> - ocaml-xen-lowlevel-libs
>> - python-github2
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Then there are generic ocaml libraries which could be used by other
>> ocaml programs. I think these can live on in the xapi project
>> organisation for now, but I wouldn't class them as 'core' xapi-project
>> repos.
>> 
>> - cdrom
>> - netdev
>> - ocamldoc-json
>> - ocaml-encodings
>> - ocaml-crc
>> - ocaml-fd-send-recv
>> - ocaml-netlink
>> - ocaml-opasswd
>> - ocaml-pci-db
>> - ocaml-qmp
>> - stdext
>> - stunnel
>> - nbd
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Which leaves us with the 'core' xapi project repositories:
>> 
>> - blktap
>> - blktap-dkms
>> - example-ocaml-daemon
>> - ffs
>> - forkexecd
>> - libvhd
>> - message-switch
>> - ocaml-rrdd-plugins
>> - opam-repo-dev
>> - rrd-transport
>> - rrdd-plugin-legacy
>> - rrddump
>> - sm
>> - sm-cli
>> - squeezed
>> - tapctl
>> - vhd-tool
>> - vncproxy
>> - vncterm
>> - vxs
>> - wsproxy
>> - xapi-codegen
>> - xapi-libvirt-storage
>> - xapi-project
>> - xcp-eliloader
>> - xcp-guest-templates
>> - xcp-idl
>> - xcp-inventory
>> - xcp-networkd
>> - xcp-rrd
>> - xcp-rrdd
>> - xen-api
>> - xen-api-client
>> - xen-api-libs
>> - xen-api-libs-transitional
>> - xen-api-sdk
>> - xenops
>> - xenops-cli
>> - xenopsd
>> 
>> Of the above lists that will remain in the xapi project, these
>> repositories have incorrect forking status (they are marked as forks of
>> someone here at Citrix, but shouldn't be):
>> 
>> Forked from me (jonludlam on github):
>> xen-api-libs-transitional
>> xen-api-client
>> xcp-guest-templates
>> xcp-eliloader
>> wsproxy
>> tapctl
>> libvhd
>> blktap-dkms
>> netdev
>> nbd
>> cdrom
>> 
>> Forked from Dave Scott (djs55)
>> xcp-idl
>> vhd-tool
>> ffs
>> ocaml-vhd
>> ocaml-tar
>> ocaml-fd-send-recv
>> 
>> Forked from Simon Beaumont (simonjbeaumont):
>> ocaml-pci-db
>> 
>> Forked from Mike McClurg (mcclurmc):
>> ocaml-opasswd
>> 
>> These forking relationship problems need to be fixed by the people who
>> own the upstream repo. I don't think it's quite as simple as clicking
>> the 'transfer repository' button. If anyone knows the exact procedure
>> for doing this, could they please reply?
>> 
>> 
>> In summary, I believe we need to:
>> 1) delete some repositories
>> 2) move some repositories to xenserver
>> 3) move some repositories to mirage-project
>> 4) transfer ownership of some repositories (just flip around the
>> direction of the fork).
>> 5) document all of this on the wiki!
>> 
>> Any comments?
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
>> 
>> 
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