Re: [NLnet Labs Maintainers] Looking for new opendnssec and softhsm maintainer
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Berry A.W. van Halderen
<berry@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> On 31 July 2017, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> I am looking for a new maintainer for opendnssec and softhsm package.
>> Honestly, I am not using neither, and it's quite hard to do a packaging
>> when you don't use the packages in question, and I think the package
>> suffer as a consequence, and I very much dislike that, so a new
>> maintainer using the package and interested in improving the Debian
>> packages would be great.
>
> At NLnet Labs we prefer these open source packages are better maintained
> by someone from within the (Debian) community. It allows non-affiliated
> persons to be more in-tune with the packaging method of the distribution
> and are more free to make own choices. We don't advocate a particular
> distribution.
>
> Having said that, we have a natural interest that the maintenance
> does not get orphaned. I'm sure that one of us, on a personal
> basis (i.e. outside of our organization control) would want to
> volunteer, but only if there are really no other candidates and
> for a transitional period. Our organization allows for us to do
> these kind of things, without NLnet Labs having any responsibility
> or accountability in this.
>
> But it would be a lot better for Debian as well to have others step in.
I moved softhsm2 to salsa, and upload 2.4.0 to Debian with 3 days delayed.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/softhsm2
If you don't agree with it, please feel free to cancel it.
>
> With kind regards,
> Berry van Halderen
>
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