Re: [Audit-test-developer] RHEL-7.1 audit-test suite pushed as rhel7_1

[Paul M. <pa...@pa...>]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Cyril Hrubis <ch...@su...> wrote:
> Hi!
>> I'm not sure if anybody is still watching this as this project (at least
>> this upstream) seems dead these days, possibly due to the nature of the
>> project.
>>
>> Anyway, I've just pushed the audit-test suite version shipped with
>> RHEL-7.1 (in the cc-config-rhel71 RPM) to the rhel7_1 branch.
>> Maybe it'll be useful to somebody.
>>
>> Our plans were to move this project over to Github, but I'm not sure
>> it's worth it - it might be better to just let it die on sourceforge.
>>
>> I have left the 'master' branch untouched as the rhel7_1 changes
>> aren't 100% compatible and we don't have the resources dedicated to
>> a full review / comments / maintenance / etc. in case any issues arise.
>
> For what it's worth we do have a repo with SUSE specific patches here as
> well, but given the state of the project we have given up on upstreaming
> it and I doubt that this will change anytime soon.

It seems a shame that we can't combine efforts to maintain a common
repository.  Personally I think moving away from a common repository,
even if it is one with distro-specific branches, is a big step
backwards.

What would it take to get folks to start contributing again?  Is it as
simple as moving to GH?

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com