Re: netplan.io: call for co-maintainers

[Lukas Maerdian <luk@slyon.de>]

Hi,

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, at 08:29, Richard Laager wrote:
> > > > I don't think we should install something
> > > > like netplan by default.
> > > I agree: it only adds complexity.
>
> > I personally use netplan everywhere.
> >
> > As to what should be the distro default, I'm not sure I am convinced 
> > either way, but to argue the other side... There is some value in using 
> > netplan by default. Some random thoughts:
> >
> > This default would match Ubuntu. (I value reducing that delta. Not 
> > everyone does, and that's fine.)
> >
> > netplan can configure both systemd-networkd and NetworkManager (though 
> > I've only used it with systemd-networkd).
>
> As the downstream maintainer of netplan in Debian, I’d like to use this opportunity to invite more people to co-maintain it in Debian :) I like the idea of netplan, but unfortunately I never started using it myself, to it would only be fair if someone who actually uses it could help keeping it up-to-date in Debian.

As the upstream maintainer of netplan (and downstream maintainer in 
Ubuntu) I'd like to step up and volunteer to help with the maintenance 
of the netplan.io package in Debian!

I'd also be happy to support the switch to netplan as the distro 
default. But as I'm only starting to re-activate my Debian activities 
after some longer break and I'm not a Debian Developer (yet?) this is 
not my call.

Please let me know if I can help out with any specific things wrt. 
netplan! Otherwise, I will get back to Andrew, discussing some changes 
that we landed in the recent netplan releases: Most of the integration 
tests can nowadays be run inside containers and can thus be used as 
autopkgtests inside the Debian infrastructure. I think it would be a 
good first step for me to enable those tests.

Cheers,
  Lukas