Hi, I'm thinking of doing a few things and possibly meeting some people over there. The things that are in my mind but I don't think I will be able to get everything done. I'd definitely be doing the first task, but I would really love help on the rest. There are too many options to try, and I definitely don't have enough time to work on everything. This is a call-for-help, or a call-for-hacks.
1. pbuilder/cowdancer (cowbuilder) support. The required parts are there, some QA and coding up parts and packaging is required. I've thought up of this idea at the last debconf, I'd really like it complete by/during the next :) something like: http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/files/bin/cowbuild 2. pbuilder/user-mode-linux revival we're waiting for user-mode-linux to revive before things get going. Especially rootstrap needs some hacking. You're welcome to hack on pbuilder-uml. 3. pbuilder/unionfs I might want to look at unionfs patch to think up of a non-obtrusive way of integrating the patch. 4. pbuilder/xen I don't quite know how it will look like, but if you can come up with something interesting, I will be interested. I assume Xen does have COW block device support. 5. pbuilder/qemu Full cross-arch build support for pbuilder would be interesting. 6. pbuilder/fakechroot I think it should be workable with a little bit more hackery, and it would be an interesting alternative solution to user-mode-linux if it works. 7. pbuilder/linux-vserver It seems like they have cowdancer-like support in kernel space(link-inversion), and vserver looks like a 'fakechroot done in kernel space', or user-mode-linux maintained from kernel space, it sounds attractive. I don't know if I can get linux-vserver running on my PC. 8. pbuildd overhaul/update There's quite a few pbuildd's around, and they might deserve some consolidation and updates. 9. devscripts.el (pbuilder) update Some scripts for pbuilder probably needs updating, and documentation 10. pbuilder-doc.xml update The documentation probably needs some updating. 11. Bug-triage. A lot of bugs are pending in pbuilder BTS, they probably need some tending. 12. Consolidation of pbuilder front-ends Multiple front-ends exist, but they probably need some integrated look-and-feel. 13. pbuilder testsuite overhaul Somehow, testsuite is running every day with 1 hour run-time. I probably want to increase the number of regression test cases, but not increase the time it takes too much. I probably need to do it selectively. 14. performance analysis of all pbuilder methods I would want a quantitative analysis of relative performance of all the methods pbuilder supports, so that I can discuss which methods are really going to be the recommended way of building packages. 15. web-front-end for pbuilder At least, the results should look better. I thought someone was working on this already? 16. pbuilder-testsuite overhaul and documentation pbuilder-testsuite is there, and I've been using it, but it probably needs some helper function libraries and documentation. Also, template auto-generation feature would be handy. If there is a competing implementation of Debian package testsuites, please tell me / help me consolidate. 17. pbuilder/lvm2 snapshots I think it should be doable if you have the right setup. 18. pbuilder/cowloop I have not confirmed, but there seems to be a kernel-based COW loopback block device support floating around the net somewhere. It might be nice to support/experiment with it. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
