On 02.07.2014 10:40, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Tomasz Mrugalski wrote: >>> It's rather unusual to have a release candidate last for more than a >>> year... usually release candidates have that status for a few weeks, maybe >>> a couple of months. >> I know. I happen to have less and less time for the project. The reason >> is because I'm working full time on a new DHCP implementation (see >> http://kea.isc.org) > > Interesting! What does that mean for the future of dibbler? Do you expect > to discontinue dibbler once kea is ready for prime-time? Yes. Kea is not a complete replacement for Dibbler. It is the server only. We do have plans to develop client and relay eventually, but it's far away in the future. Also, Dibbler is much more feature complete (host reservation, client classification, scripts, reconfigure, authentication etc.). And supports more operating systems, e.g. most Microsoft systems (not really relevant in Debian context, but it's still important from userbase perspective).
On the other hand, there's a small team working on Kea full time, often well over 40 hours a week. So the project is developing quickly. As for Dibbler, I'm able to spend a few hours on weekends. We will release 0.9 in the next 2 months. It will be stable and feature complete enough that we could start talking about Debian packaging. So if you ask if Dibbler is being abandoned - no. It will continue, at least for the next couple years. I will consider closing the project once there's viable alternative and a clear migration path for users. That's not going to happen in the next 5 years. So I expect Dibbler to be around at least that long. Tomek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
