Re: someone interested in adopting grub-client?
> Hi!
>
> grub-client is a distributed webcrawler client written in c++. The
> biggest problem with it is that it simply doesn't work, and I don't
> grok why. I'm not that familar with c++ and multithreading and don't
> know where to look for the bug. Furthermore it seems that on the search
> engine front (for which the client crawls) there is no real progress so
> I can't say where this project leads to.
>
> I am not sure if there are really people interested, so if noone likes
> to pick it up I'll request the removal of the package from testing and
> unstable. I don't see any sense in having the package in the pool when
> there is no real interest in it, especially if it has a release
> critical bugreport on it that I can't track down.
>
> Mail Cc'ed to the RC bugreporter, maybe he is interested to work on the
> issue and adopt the package. Jim, if you like to do it I am willing to
> sponsor you. The part about sponsoring this package holds for everyone
> else too, btw.
>
> So long,
> Alfie
> --
> * *sigh* I finally upload a fixed get-foo-flags and the next day a new
> upstream comes out.
> * oh, new upstream, btw.
> -- Marcelo E. Magallon, changelog.Debian for wmaker (0.64.0-1)
/me raises hand
I'd be willing to give it a shot :P
I'm no official debian maintainer/developer , but I do want to become one .
D. Stibbe
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