Re: mol modules for kernel 2.6.14
On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 the mental interface of
Sven Luther told:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:59:30PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 the mental interface of
> > Sven Luther told:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:16:48PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter
> > > wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > I filed a bugreport to fix it. It is the job of the maintainer
> > > > to implement it;)
> > >
> > > Yeah, ok, a quick reality check here. The mol maintainer died
> > > tragically in july, leaving the package all but abandoned, i did
> > > jump in because nobody else did and because mol was blocking the
> > > 2.6.12 kernel transition, and because i used to work with Jens on
> > > the 2.6 powerpc kernel packages.
> >
> > AFAIR this was Martin Loschwitz?
>
> Nope, Jens Schmalzing.
No, I ment his follower.
> > > I don't use mol and am not interested in being the sole maintainer
> > > of it, except to make it build with newer kernel packages, and did
> > > write so when i announced the mol 2.6.12 packages here, so read
> > > the mailing list archive.
> >
> > So we need an interested maintainer!
>
> Indeed, but many could participate in the team work, which is the aim of the
> alioth project.
>
> > > The alternative being naturally to kick mol from the archive, or
> > > at least the mol-modules, so they don't interfer with the kernel
> > > packages, as mol seems abandoned upstream and there is no real
> > > interest in doing real maintainership of them for debian, altough
> > > Otavio proposed himself.
> >
> > I noticed the inactivity of upstream. At the moment we have a
> > solution to patch mol-source running tiger. The maintainer has to be
> > found here (or at debian-devel ....) and the upstream push at
> > mol-general or something.
>
> Indeed, but i believe if no default maintainer is found a grouping of users
> and not-really-interested DDs like myself could handle this package.
ACK!
Elimar
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