I decided to take on as a personal challenge the effort of trying to get everything that Fedora and Red Hat have done with SELinux userspace into the upstream trees. My process has been to try to pick apart the gigantic patch that Fedora carries and break that into reasonable size patches with descriptive and meaningful changelogs. As I'm breaking them up I'm also attempting to review them for appropriateness of inclusion. As I find that patches that I either think are wrong, or I can't explain, or whatever, I'm also committing those to my tree, but trying to make sure it is clear that is the case. I would quickly like to switch Fedora to using my tree as its 'upstream' instead of the Tresys tree. Remember, my tree is going to contain everything in Fedora, even if I don't think it's a good idea or ready to be merged with the real upstream tree. I've asked Dan (and everyone) to start reviewing patches in my tree a couple per day. He is going to send an e-mail to this list stating that he believes a patch is ready to commit. If both Dan and I agree that the patch in question is appropriate for upstream I will commit it to the real upstream repo. As I commit patches upstream every day I will rebase my private tree. My private tree is NOT stable. If you would like to participate, PLEASE DO! Reviewing patches is easy! All you have to do is: git clone http://oss.tresys.com/git/selinux.git selinux-userspace cd selinux-userspace edit .git/config and add: [remote "eparis"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/eparis/* url = git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux-userspace.git git remote update git format-patch -o /tmp/patches/ origin/master..eparis/master I'd suggest that every day you wish to review you run: rm -rf /tmp/patches git remote update git format-patch -o /tmp/patches/ origin/master..eparis/master Because my repo will be constantly rebasing and changing as I push patches into the upstream repo. If you have ever posted a patch for SELinux userspace and you don't find it in my tree, in my mind it's lost forever. Please resend it. Just because I put it in my tree doesn't mean it's going to go upstream, but if I don't put it in my private tracking tree, we can rest assured it's not headed that way! Please let me know if anyone has any problems, thoughts, concerns, issues, or comments about how I'm doing things! -Eric -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
