On 06/18/2018 09:56 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Hi Thomas. Thanks for the latest upload of the Open vSwitch packages to > Debian. > > I'm no longer interested in being a maintainer for the downstream Debian > packages of Open vSwitch. I just don't have sufficient time to do it > properly (and honestly have not had that time for at least a few years). > The next time you make an upload, would you mind removing me from the > Maintainers field? > > Thanks, > > Ben.
Ben, Reading the above is very frustrating. Yes, I know how to do packages, but I really need help from upstream. In many ways, I do need help from upstream, and especially from someone knowing packaging. I very much would prefer if you could reconsider your above decision. Even if you don't do the bulk of the work, I will need help when there's FTBFS and such. For example, currently, OpenVSwitch can build because I have patched the unit test suite to remove lots of tests. I would very much prefer if I had real fixes, rather than disabling them. There's also areas that I don't really understand (yet?). For example, I have yet understood what DPDK is, and how I should package it. The only way I could do it would be cheating by reading what has been done in Ubuntu. That's not the way I want to continue doing the work. I don't really get what is the difference between OVS and OVN as well. So, definitively, please continue to help! Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
