[CRIU] Abandoned features in criu-dev

Adrian Reber adrian at lisas.de
Wed May 30 13:17:12 MSK 2018


On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 01:58:22PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> criu-dev contains more than 400 patches over the master branch.
> 
> $ git diff origin/master..origin/criu-dev --stat criu/
> 
>  75 files changed, 6650 insertions(+), 1276 deletions(-)
> 
> It is really too much and I don't want to spend my time rebasing this
> code, if nobody else cares of it.
> 
> I suggest to create a new policy. If a feature was abandoned for more
> than three months, the question about its excluding is discussed in the
> mailing list. If it is abandoned for six months, it is excluded
> automatically. "excluded" means moving in a separate branch.
> 
> What do you think about this policy? Any comments are welcome!
> 
> Firsts candidates for exclusion are:
> 1. netsted-namespaces (pid and userns)
> 2. The check-only mode

As I added the check-only code I am also for your proposal to drop
abandoned features. Sounds good.

		Adrian


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