En respuesta al reciente ataque a kernel.org, donde se guarda todo lo relacionado al kernel de Linux, sus creadores mudan el proyecto.
Linus Torvalds se vio en la obligación de mudar el kernel de Linux al hosting gratuito de repositorios Github en respuesta al reciente ataque de hackers que sufrió kernel.org.
Github tiene disponible repositorios públicos para recibir tu código fuente de cualquier proyecto que estés realizando. Te da las herramientas para gestionar tu proyecto, colaborar con los miembros de tu equipo, hacer el seguimiento de errores sin problemas y, sobre todo, el control de versiones todo tu trabajo.
Aquí el comunicado de Torvalds vía su newsletter:
So it’s been another week, and it’s time for another -rc.
However, master.kernel.org is still down, and there really hasn’t been
a ton of development going on, so I considered just skipping a week.
But hey, the whole point (well, *one* of the points) of distributed
development is that no single place is really any different from any
other, so since I did a github account for my divelog thing, why not
see how well it holds up to me just putting my whole kernel repo there
too?So while kernel.org is down for the count, let’s just see how github does:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
NOTE! One thing to look out for when you see a new random public
hosting place usage like that is to verify that yes, it’s really the
person you think it is. So is it?You can take a few different approaches:
(a) Heck, it’s open source, I don’t care who I pull from, I just want
a new kernel, and not having a new update from kernel.org in the last
few days, I *really* need my new kernel fix. I’ll take it, because I
need to exercise my CPU’s by building randconfig kernels. Besides, I
like living dangerously.(b) Yeah, the email looks like it comes from Linus, and we all know
that SMTP cannot possibly be spoofed, so it must be him.(c) Ok, I can fetch that tree, and I know that Linus always does
signed tags, and I can verify the 3.1-rc5 tag with Linus known public
GPG key that I have somewhere. If it matches, I don’t care who the
person doing the release announcement is, I’ll trust that Linus signed
the tree(d) I’ll just wait for kernel.org to feel better.
Whatever works for you.
One thing to note: If you just do
git pull https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
you probably won’t get the tags, since it’s not your origin branch. So do
git fetch –tags
too, so that you get not only the actual changes, but the tag that you
can verify too.And I *would* suggest you just pull into an existing tree, rather than
clone a new copy. I bet the github people will appreciate that.Anything worth saying about the changes themselves? The appended
shortlog pretty much speaks for itself: there really hasn’t been much
excitement on the kernel development front.Now, if you want to talk to me about dive logging software, that’s a
whole different kettle of fish..Linus
