[Pkg-shadow-devel] [PATCH 00/11] pkg-shadow support subordinate ids with user namespaces

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm at xmission.com):

> Yes.  It looks like we are going to have to setup a public repository
> somewhere to collect all of the changes and bug fixes.  Not that I
> expect too many but clearly there are a few needed.

That exists.

Shadow upstream (and Debian package) is maintained in an SVN
repository hosted on alioth.debian.org.

I can make it as easy as possible to people to contribute by opening
commit access there.

We can also, if that helps in attracting contributors, convert the
repo to git (I will need help there because the repo has a quite long
history and we want to keep it). I know that, nowadays, svn often
looks a bit scary (and, TBH, feature-limited) to many FLOSS
contributors.

In short, nothing is hidden nor closed. Indeed, I think that shadow
might benefit from more input, given that my friend Nicolas has
limited time.

The only constraint is indeed giving French cheese names to
releases. This is something I won't compromise with...:-). We invented
this tradition when we took shadow over, back in 2005 (doh!) and that
has to remain the French Touch in the software..:-)

I can act as a facilitator for all this. I definitely *don't have the
skills to decide what contributions are "good" or not. Shadow being a
sensitive piece of software, we might need to be careful at the
beginning and include fixes and new features with care.

This is indeed where git and its great branching features might help a
lot.

May I welcome interested people to join the
Pkg-shadow-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org mailing list so that we
reduce the CC list of this thread?


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-shadow-devel/attachments/20130308/eeb908ef/attachment.pgp>