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Re: Intent to hijack Bacula



On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:12:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I have not withdrawn my intent to take over Bacula.  I am volunteering
> > to do some pretty significant work on it, and have already done so.
> 
> You should not go ahead and remove José from maintenance over his
> objection if he offers you co-maintenance. Your reason for hijacking
> bacula seems to have been that José was slacking, not anything personal
> or some such. In that case, I can understand that you want to take over

Well, I would say it's more that he has written very poor code -- some
of which has been broken for several years -- and has not made much
effort to fix it.  For at least some of it, he does not believe there is
a problem.  Take a look at the BTS if you want.  My first NMU closed 22
bugs (or will, once it gets out of NEW).

> so that the work gets done. But if José says "I'm more than willing to
> let you help out, but I still want to work on it", then that should be
> respected; this is how it's always done in Debian.

I have made it clear to everyone -- him included -- that I would be
happy to receive patches.  I will, however, be sure to review them
before applying them.

> Of course, if I misunderstood something, or you have some compelling
> reason to block José from cooperating that you haven't talked about yet,
> I'm happy to be enlightened.

The most compelling reason:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=jltallon@adv-solutions.net;arch=source

Please note that the pending upload bugs on that page are ones that are
fixed in my NMU.

There are all sorts of other long-term blatant problems with Bacula that
weren't reported to the BTS.  His AM had already mentioned quite a few
to him back in February.  I don't believe jltallon is yet suited to
maintain a package of this complexity.

-- John



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