Bug#985893: [Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Forking on MMSD

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi Chris,
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 02:46:30PM -0400, Chris Talbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 20:30 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 02:21:04PM -0400, Chris Talbot wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > > 
> > > In talking to the Debian Developer Mr. Federico Ceratto, since I
> > > have
> > > been unable to get a hold of the Ofono Maintainers, the best course
> > > of
> > > action for packaging mmsd into Debian is to simply fork the project
> > > and
> > > submit my version upstream for packaging in Debian. My repository
> > > is
> > > here: https://source.puri.sm/kop316/mmsd/
> > > 
> > > I am sending this so the relavent parties are aware of this, and to
> > > indicate that I no longer intend on trying to get a hold of
> > > upstream
> > > mmsd to try and submit patches.
> > > 
> > > For the Purism Employees, I am additionally asking for permission
> > > to
> > > keep hosting mmsd on https://source.puri.sm/ ;. I have been
> > > extremely
> > > appreciative in using it and I am happy to keep it there, but I
> > > want to
> > > be neighboorly and ask if it is okay for me to keep it there. If it
> > > is
> > > not, I completely understand and I am fine with moving it to a new
> > > host.
> > 
> > Keeping your ofono version on source.puri.sm is certainly welcome!
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> > 
> > > 
> > > If you have any questions, comments, or concern, please reach out
> > > to
> > > me.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Respectfully,
> > > Chris Talbot
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
> Thank you for allowing me to keep hosting it there.

Great. If you really want to maintain a fork i'd consider renaming to
make that obvious (e.g. mm-mmsd) to avoid confusion within distros.

> Since it is now a fork, I added Mr. Ceratto, Mr. Farraris (a-wai), and
> Mr. Clayton Craft (craftyguy, a pmOS developer) as maintainers. Is
> there a wish for a Purism maintainer to be added as well?
I think sadiq and devrtz were the ones most involved so far but i think
working via MRs is fine since that allows to establish a workflow.

Cheers,
 -- Guido


> Respectfully,
> Chris Talbot
>