On 2014-11-24 08:57 PM, Peter Howard wrote:
On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:45 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:On 2014-11-06, Isaac Connor wrote:Our intention as upstream maintainers is to work with all distros to not only make zm as good as it can be, but to also minimize the effort on the part of distros to package it.Yes, that's the one thing that made me consider continued maintenance...I tend to do my part for debian based distros and have reached out to Howard to help ease his burden. I do not feel qualified to take up maintainership however.It doesn't seem like anyone does at this point... *sigh* Not sure what channels tend to get the most activity in the zoneminder community, but it might be good to try and actively reach out. Without an active maintainer, it's just lingering on in Debian unstable. I've thought about doing "one last upload", but then realised it's probably more honest to leave it in the current unusable state...
We can certainly do that, I will arrange to do something like that today.However, let me be more clear about me... I am willing to do it, I'm just going to need some hand holding at the start. I don't want to break debian or step on anyone's toes. Perhaps Peter can guide me a bit.
Peter maybe we can do it together to show me the ropes? I would really like to get 1.28 in there soon, as 1.26 and 1.27 were both rather poor showings on our parts.I'd like to say I've got a bit more time in there to do some stuff, but sadly the record, and reality, says otherwise :-(. Should anyone step up to become the official maintainer I'm happy to have my name bumped off, and occasionally throw some help in.In any event, I will monitor and address issues in the debian bug system and do my best to make packaging zm as easy as possible.Right now my ZM setup is completely broken (combination of SW and HW probs). I really would like to get it running again, and will probably spend a bit of serious time over Christmas looking at it. If things are still as they are now, I almost certainly *will* push "one last release" then.
Isaac