Xen support without reinventing the wheel

[Eric S. Johansson]

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> I don't think that YAML is going to expedite communications necessarily --
...
> which means they have to ask.  Not everybody will ask, so you've just lost
> some of your potential developer pool.

it must work for some folks but I've seen it break more often than not. 
  just my experience.

>> enough people have been asking about xen that I was wondering if people 
>> were ready to move forward and commit time and energy to solving the 
>> problems, the very shortcomings you refer to.
> 
> Shouldn't it be enough that *you* are ready to move forward, etc?

nice shot.  what I've worked on in the past month:

Camram (alternative antispam system)
IPCop (embedded system flash production)
Akasha (framework for simplifying small to medium scale web development)

do you think I have room for another project?

without any help, I will probably pick away at this at an incredibly 
slow rate because first I have to learn how debian package systems work, 
undo the existing package, and learn how to build new packages.

and I have yet yet any pointers to documentation on how to build .deb 
files for applications built on Perl or Python.  Because then I would 
package camram and Akasha.

> 
>> maybe my question would better be worded; how are people willing to fund
>> making xen work?  Money or effort?
> 
> How about a different question: are you only going to work on this if there
> are other people involved?  If the answer is 'no', then don't bother
> surveying the landscape, just start digging.  Others will join you or not,
> as they see fit, but you'll be solving your problems, so there's no hassle.

first I have to pay the mortgage.  Given that I'm self-employed, checks 
don't show up unless I knock on doors.  So first things first.  Second, 
come my ugly stepchildren (camram, Akasha, IPCop).  Then I'll think 
about adopting a new child.  If you look back you'll find my offer was 
to share the knowledge I had about xen based systems.  I was hoping to 
leverage somebody else's knowledge about deb packages etc. exchange for 
leveraging my knowledge.

---eric