Fwd: Re: Bug#801253: O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager

[toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>]

forgot to reply to all.


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Subject: Re: Bug#801253: O: wicd -- wired and wireless network manager
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:18:34 +0100 (CET)
From: toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>
To: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>

> wicd has been picked and abandoned from upstream a lot of times
> (I happen to know the original creator of the tool).
> Open Source works this way, people starts projects, leaves them,
> somebody picks them up again.
>
> Until the package gets broken again you won't probably notice upstream
> activity, but until users will care about the tool, I'm pretty sure somebody
> will patch it and make it work again.
>
> So, dead upstream is not true, unless nobody cares about it.

Thanks for the correction, i didn't thought about this part of the topic -
although with "inactivity" i meant rather actively developing new 
features etc
than just maintaining. But on the other side, the maintaining part is 
also not
that active (e.g. the wicd-devel mailinglist has very low traffic) but 
of corse
not non-existent.

> >I'd like to thank you all for the great support and the very kind
> >explanations, it is really a wonderful and very constructive environment
>
> >to work in.
>
> you did a good job!
> the package is in a nice shape now, don't forget to contribute if you find
> issues :)

Thanks, I will certainly do that. :D