Re: Getting patches into packages, thought and ideas [Was: Re: About NM and Next Release]
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:40, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 07, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
wrote:
> >Do you think any DD reads those? Do DDs care about Bugs with patches?
> >And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp.
>
> ppp actually appears to be unmaintained. Many users requested essential
> features like pppoa and kernel space pppoe support but the maintainer
> never did it and has not released a new package in almost a year.
> I would like to know from Russell if he plans to start working again
> soon on ppp or would like to have a co-maintainer who will fix these and
> other problems.
> (If he is not interested then I'm determined to fork the package and
> upload ppp-cvs.)
I have not had enough time to work properly on ppp. I welcome a
co-maintainer.
I think that the best thing to do at the moment is to add the requested
features to the main ppp package wherever possible, and to also have a
ppp-cvs package which will focus more on bleeding-edge features. The ppp-cvs
package would be based on the current CVS code plus any additional patches
that are considered useful. Patches that are found to work well in ppp-cvs
can then be committed to the CVS tree (I have CVS commit access).
Marco, please upload new ppp or ppp-cvs packages to fit this scheme, I'll work
with you on it as time permits.
Also thanks for CCing me on the message, I generally just delete entire
threads from my mailing-list folder when they appear to be endless
flame-wars, so I only receive messages if CC'd to me directly as that makes
them appear in my personal folder (which gets read much more carefully).
PS pppoa was one of my original aims in taking over the ppp package... :(
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