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The forest on the move
As of this writing, kernel.org remains offline, though it is to be hoped
that access for git trees, at least, will be restored before too long.
Linus's current plans seem to involve opening the merge window before
mid-October; without a functioning kernel.org, that will not run anywhere
near as smoothly as the community might like. Still, some things cannot be
rushed, and it is important that kernel.org come back in a solid and secure
mode.
Quite a few trees have found new homes in the mean time. Here is an updated version of the list of relocated trees:
That is a substantial list of moved trees, but, as linux-next maintainer Stephen Rothwell noted on September 27, that leaves 89 trees which still only exist on kernel.org. Those trees will not have seen any updates since kernel.org went off the net. Some of them will certainly be trees that are currently idle or close to it; not every tree feeding into linux-next carries patches for every development cycle. But others presumably exist for a reason; if kernel.org does not come back soon, they will need to find a different home. One significant tree that has not moved is the stable release tree; the last stable updates came out on August 29. With luck, kernel.org will come back soon and the above list will become moot. But kernel.org, when it returns, may look somewhat different. It has already been announced that there will be no shell access to the machines hosting the git trees. There may be other security measures put into place as well, some possibly requiring changes in how developers operate. Making changes of that nature in the time left before the next merge window could be hard to do. The 3.2 development cycle, in other words, might be a bit more interesting and less smooth than usual. (Log in to post comments)
The forest on the move Posted Sep 29, 2011 0:15 UTC (Thu) by agrover (subscriber, #55381) [Link]
...to say nothing of all the non-kernel projects that also had their primary git trees on kernel.org.
The forest on the move Posted Sep 29, 2011 0:39 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] One near to my heart is git itself, now at git://github.com/gitster/git.git
The forest on the move Posted Sep 29, 2011 1:37 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> The forest on the move
I can't decide whether this reminds me of Lord of the Rings or Macbeth.
The forest on the move Posted Sep 29, 2011 12:33 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] Embrace the power of "and"?
The forest on the move Posted Sep 29, 2011 3:27 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
It's freaking awesome how flexible and resilient the whole thing is. It'd be great to see an article when this all is done about how amazing this whole thing has been.
The forest on the move Posted Sep 30, 2011 2:18 UTC (Fri) by eteo (guest, #36711) [Link]
Linux kernel TPM device drivers is at https://github.com/srajiv/tpm.git.
Stable Tree Posted Sep 30, 2011 15:07 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] Is currently available in patch form only for now. In theory though re-building the tree from the lkml posts should be identical to the final git tree once kernel.org is back up.
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