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

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
> 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

I do think that would help a lot.  Then I (or Eric, but I'm willing)
could at least keep a github branch with Eric's set and changes on
top of it.

> 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..:-)

Hah, I'm definately not qualified here, but let's make sure the README
stipulates this condition, and suggests contacting you for release
name candidates? :)

> 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?

I joined that list a week or two ago, so dropped the containers m-l
from the cc: list.

-serge