On 12/01/17 14:49, G. Campana wrote: Hi, thanks for taking care! > As written elsewhere, I think that kvmtool doesn't get all the attention > it deserves and it might be related to the following personal > observations. I'm sorry if these topics have already been discussed > somewhere, but a quick search didn't show up any similar discussion. > > The first results for kvmtool on a search engine redirect to the Clear > Containers' GitHub, while the official git repository is hosted on > git.kernel.org. Several kvmtool repositories exist on GitHub, and > telling which repository is the official one is indeed difficult. A > kvmtool organization even exists on GitHub, but I can't tell if it's > related to the project. It seems to be managed by Asias He, one of the original kvmtool developers, and from what I can tell it follows the kernel.org repo. He also created http://kvmtool.github.io/, which looks like it aims to be the webpage you are asking for. > I personally think that a website (or even a > single webpage) would be great, at least to provide this piece of > information. Yes, that has been brought up before, but apparently nobody had the energy to push this through. I think we agreed that a page in the KVM wiki [1] was deemed an easy, yet useful option. kvm-unit-tests, for instance, which is also a separate, yet related project, uses this as well [2]. Registering with the Wiki should be easy enough and could actually be done by anybody. Since you seem to care ;-), would you mind of giving this a start? I believe that once _something_ is there, people - including me ;-) - can more easily contribute. > Incidentally, I find that reporting issues through e-mail isn't > convenient (and makes contributions difficult for non-kernel > developers). It's kind of difficult to know what are the current issues, > and even know the state of past issues. A bugtracker would definitely be > a great option in my opinion. I don't believe that a bugtracker is overly popular with the involved developers. > Finally, kvmtool shares the KVM's mailing list. The static HTML pages of > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/ seem to be the only way to browse the > archive, which is quite painful. I agree that this is quite painful, though not something kvmtool people would solve. Having a proper archive for the kvm list would be a more worthwhile solution, I guess. > Originally, it made sense to have a > single mailing list for KVM and kvmtool since they both were part of the > Linux kernel. kvmtool is now an independent userland project and I > wonder if a separate mailing list wouldn't be more convenient. I am not sure if that's worth it. Posts about kvmtool are very rare at the moment, so the list would be mostly orphaned, with only a small number of people subscribed, so people would CC: kvm@vger as well ... And given that we don't even manage to get a webpage up and running, I would at least re-prioritize this. Cheers, Andre Though the wiki seems to be down at the moment: [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/ [2] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-unit-tests -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
