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Re: [Xen-devel] Archiving XCI : Request for an Archivation Review for the XCI project



On 3/29/12, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> the XCI project appears to have been dormant for a while and there is no
> project lead for XCI today.  In line with Xen governance (see
> phttp://www.xen.org/projects/governance.html), I would like to first get
> community views on the health of the project and then schedule an
> archivation review.
>
> Let me quote from the process: "The review is essentially a pitch why
> the project should be archived. The purpose of the review is not
> necessarily to archive a project, but also to provide a last opportunity
> for interested parties in the Xen.org community to save the project and
> step up. The Xen.org community manager will support efforts to save the
> project, should community members want to step up. There is the special
> case that a project has been completed: in this case the normal
> situation would be for the project lead to make the case, why this is so."
>
> Right now, the project shows a number of issues:
> a) There is little or no activity
> b) There is no project lead
> c) There is no mentor for the project
> d) Maybe there is a case, that the project has actually been completed
>
> The first step of addressing these issues, would be to find a mentor and
> new project lead for the XCI project. This could be a vendor expressing
> interest in leading the project, who would ultimately provide the
> project lead. The project lead could also be an individual. My
> suggestion is to first have an open discussion about the issues and see
> if somebody is willing to step up. If so, I will work with the vendor or
> individual who steps up. Failing this, we will schedule an archivation
> review.
>
> My suggestion is, to allow 2 weeks for discussion. In other words, I
> will collate the input that I have received by April 12th. We will then
> schedule the actual review.
>
> We have not had archivation reviews in the past, but I believe we should
> run this as a semi-public meeting. I.e. interested parties approach me
> and will be invited to the meeting.
>

While I am not necessarily wanting to take over the XCI project
(however, I might consider it), I am putting together my own XCI
distribution, OpenXCI. It is not based on the xen.org XCI project
(which is rather outdated), but instead will be based on a fork of the
free parts of the XCI toolstack from XenClient 2 running on a Debian
6.0 base. OpenXCI will be different from other desktop hypervisors in
that it will be just a multi-boot alternative without any support for
remote provisioning or management other than SSH (it's intended for
people who can manage their own computers by themselves), but there is
no reason that the toolstack couldn't be used elsewhere.

Currently, I have working graphics and input servers, and am using
them with a more or less stock Debian 6.0 system. I haven't yet ported
the XCI toolstack because I am trying to find a more stable kernel
(pv-ops kernels seem to be rather unstable on my system, whereas the
XenClient 2 xenlinux kernel never crashed except when the drive
failed). The SourceForge page is at <http://sf.net/projects/openxci/>
(the graphics and input servers as well as the corresponding QEMU
patches are available there; I'll post more information soon).

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