On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] >>> 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. >
Nobody is resisting. I'm just saying I would argue with general public benefit rather than with customers, I'm making profit from, lined up and waiting for some change to happen. Also, accepting or rejecting a patch is developers choice, not a duty. Anyway, I understand argument. I even know [F]OSS became one big business. Yet I would still choose to "lie" or plead with general public benefit rather than my customers missing some feature :) But hey, that's me. [...] > > 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. > Great. >> 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 :)? My aim was at big corps, if it was not obvious. As of not having enough time, I would say, it is anybody's wish to have more time. I'm already maintaining ipmitool in its kind of way. So sure. If you don't mind my lack of C experience, if you don't mind it won't be backed up by corporation ... sure. >[...] > > 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 Second it :) Zdenek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
