Of distributed tinderboxing

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 02:43 -0800, Ade Lovett wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> It's been some time since I posted here, and I received a few  
> personal emails about the work I'd planned for extending the  
> tinderbox environment to fully distributed clustering.
> 
> I'm afraid that for a variety of reasons (personal loss, extreme  
> $realjob pressures, the list goes on) I have finally come to the  
> realization that what I had planned is simply not going to be  
> feasible in the very limited time I have available for this project.   
> I make no excuses, I bit off more than I could chew, and I failed to  
> deliver.  For that, I am truly sorry.
> 
> That said, there are definitely some code cleanups etc that are  
> present in HEAD which should make its way make to the 2.x branch, and  
> I will offer what assistance I can in merging that code.  Once (or  
> even if) that is done, I humbly suggest that the HEAD branch as it  
> stands is nuked, and a new HEAD is taken from Tinderbox 2.4 (or  
> whatever the version number is).

Thanks for the announcement, and for all your work you've done on
Tinderbox.  While I don't have the TB resources (or need at this point)
to do a distributed Tinderbox infrastructure, I realize that many users
want such a thing, and I would be willing to help if someone wanted to
breathe new life into such a project.

Joe

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