On Thursday 20 August 2009, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi all. Hi, > A few months back, I posted TuxOnIce for something like the third time, > seeking to see if we could make some progress on getting it merged. The > outcome of that was an agreement between Rafael and I that we'd work on > getting TuxOnIce functionality (if not the actual code) merged bit by > bit, improving swsusp rather than doing an outright merge. > > Unfortunately, as the intervening months have shown, Rafael is busy with > other things and so am I. The few patches I did prepare and post have > had no review, and I haven't had a chance to build on or rework them > since. (I'd actually like them not to be merged, because I've realised > that there are more foundational changes that need to go in first.) > > Given that this has been the outcome so far, I see no reason to imagine > that we're going to make any serious progress any time soon. That unfortunately is probably right. The problem for my part is that new things are still appearing that I need to take care of rather urgently. In fact the user space part of (u)swsusp also has been suffering from the lack of attention recently, so to speak. > I'd therefore like to ask whether there's anyone out there who could do > one or more of: > > 1) Step up to the plate and help improve swsusp, without relying on any > help from me but with my blessing if they choose to copy wholesale bits > of TuxOnIce; > 2) Take over maintaining TuxOnIce from me; > 3) Some other way forward that hasn't occurred to me. > > Thoughts, input, flames, whatever else welcome. A lack of deadly silence > would be especially appreciated :) Well, the code is out there. If there's time to try to get it in, I think it's worth doing. Best, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
