FTP is just another from of HTTP; once I figure out how everything is organized, it should be easy. Nothing like that LDAP code.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Jonathan Valliere <[email protected] > wrote: > Since it is basically Mina I/O, I can help maintain FTP Server. It is a > lot more “friendly” looking than the SSHD project. Just need to get > Eclipse to stop giving me Maven errors when loading the project. > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 2018-04-18 10:28 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]>: >> >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I'd like to ask your opinion about what we should do with the FtpServer >> > project. >> > >> > There is little activity around it, and in the last 3 years, I was the >> > only one committig patches and code to the source base. >> > >> > OTOH, I know this project is being used, as we have bug reports >> > periodically. >> > >> > At this point, I'd like to know what you think we should o about it : >> > >> > o move it to attic >> > >> >> I think the attic does not bring much to the community. It should already >> be pretty obvious that it's not actively developped. >> The attic is imho interesting for a whole project, because the PMC is not >> capable of overseeing the project anymore. >> For a subproject, it does not bring anything >> >> >> > o keep going and trying to find new committers >> > >> >> Definitely, if people are interested in contributing, we should invite >> them >> as committers with a very low entry-bar. >> >> >> > o having some existing committers more actively taking care of the code >> > base >> > >> > Ideally speaking, the third solution is the best, the second is ok too, >> > but requires some people to step in. >> > >> > I don't have any time to investigate bug reports that are related to the >> > FTP functionality (I pretty much know nothing about FTP), but I can >> > spend time applying patches, fixing obvious bugs, or cutting releases. >> > >> >> Same here... >> >> >> > So, what's your opinion ? >> >> >> I'm not actively tracking JIRA issues. I wonder if there would be a >> better >> way of applying patches. >> Maybe github PR could be automatically validated (i.e. run a full build on >> CI) and could be made more visible somehow ? >> That way, if we know they build passes, a quick check could be sufficient >> to merge the PR. >> >> >> > >> > Many thanks ! >> > >> > PS: if any user is interested in participating in the project, we can >> > easily vote them in as committer : this is an open source project, those >> > who want to be part of it are very welcome. >> > >> > -- >> > Emmanuel Lecharny >> > >> > Symas.com >> > directory.apache.org >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------ >> Guillaume Nodet >> > >
