On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Zdenek Styblik wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Harshad Prabhu (hprabhu)
<hpra...@cisco.com> wrote:
Hi
We have provided 2 patches but there has been no response from owners
Hello,
owners? Do you mean designated maintainers of SF.net project, right?
I assume the SF admins as well, yes.
when will this be included in CVS. Our customers are waiting for this
patch to be approved upstream. And this has become very very important.
Customers? Customers of Cisco? Eh. Not the best argument I would use
to get people motivated/interested in, to be honest :)
Perhaps not, but the more that folks from 3rd parties get their changes
in, the greater the likelihood of progress and contribution back to
opensource projects. Any level of resistance from large companies
generally leads to siloing and wasted effort -- especially when tools like
ipmitool are valuable in products, but ultimately don't amount to much in
terms of $$$, and thus this is when folks silo; it sometimes costs less
for developers to hack on things with a non-maintainable solution than
it is to get a real solution in place in a [F]OSS project.
Any idea whom to directly contact incase this has to go in.
You have list bellow Andy provided. You can try to send them private
message via SF.net.
I'm not sure if SF.net has any way of taking over of project when its
maintainers "went missing". I know CPAN does.
There's indeed a process. Request maintainership via
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac , but make absolutely sure to contact
the current admins and provide adequate documentation if they do not
reply before approaching the SF admins.
<user>@users.sf.net is the dedicated email alias for each of the
admins if you opt out of going through the SF forms.
And again, I'm surprised how nobody wants to take over and continue,
yet everybody cries for project to move forward.
Actively contributing to 1+ SF projects is more than enough for
me. Wish I had more time because I actively use ipmitool. Probably the
same could be said for others here as well.
Why not offer to become the project maintainer yourself :)?
Hi Andy,
I remember you mentioning that
"Here are the sourceforge usernames of those who have authority to
commit and release ipmitool:
audetjm, carolh, iceblink, pere"
Not sure whether they are actively working on it still.
...
Of course getting access to SF.net would be the best, because forking or
keeping own patched version ... from my point of view, it is not good
for "end user".
Agreed -- hopefully the next set of maintainers can move the
project forward and maybe use something like git (that's a wish.. not a
stopgap feature).
Thanks!
-Garrett
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