[Spice-devel] Moving libcacard repo to spice fdo

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> libcacard was merged in qemu years ago, but it proved to be
> problematic for both maintainance and build reason due to the cyclic
> depdency (libcacard(qemu)->spice->qemu). It's quite certain that the
> project is going to be splitted from qemu (see recent qemu libcacard
> threads), and I prepared the work (see personal repo
> https://github.com/elmarco/libcacard).
> 
> The main question remaining is where to host the repo. Since it's
> historically a Spice project, and most feature and maintenance are
> related to Spice usage, it would make sense to move it to the Spice
> fdo space.
> 
> Regarding the maintenance, I proposed I continue the maintenance &
> release, keep the one ack rule. Spice team could also fix it more
> easily since they wouldn't have to wait for qemu pull or the
> maintainer (maintained like the rest of the spice projects)
> 
> Is anybody against this proposal?

Sounds fine to me, only small reserve I would have with moving to
freedesktop is that it's not always quick to get new people to have push
access to git.freedesktop.org, but that's probably not a big issue for
libcacard (small number of committers/not a huge number of commits).

Christophe
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