For those of you who haven't been on the rsync mailing list long, you may
be wondering about who maintains what parts of rsync. The history is that
rsync was primarily written by Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, and that a couple
years ago he asked for somebody else to maintain it while he finished his
PhD thesis (which was about rsync). I volunteered for about 6 months and
then when he finished his thesis I turned maintainership back to him, and
around the same time he began to work for Linuxcare. A while later, one of
Tridge's co-workers at Linuxcare, Martin Pool, took over as the official
maintainer. Tridge is still the one who knows the most about rsync,
especially when it comes to networking and the main rsync algorithm. He
still does some of the maintaining of rsync but he is extremely busy on a
lot of projects (he's also the primary author of Samba). Tridge & Martin
are now both at VA Linux. I still have update access to the CVS and
occasionally make changes, but only minor ones and only ones that are
important to me personally and if I'm not sure if Tridge or Martin will get
to them.
A while back I encouraged Tridge to expand the rsync maintainer team like
he did with Samba, and he was open to the idea and in fact I think one
person did get access but he never did any updates. If you want to get
update access to the rsync CVS, contact Tridge and Martin. Tridge's home
page is
http://samba.org/~tridge
- Dave Dykstra
