Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters
Hi Prach, sorry for the _very_ late reply. I seem to have forgotton to subscribe to the RFA bug report myself and discovered your mail only today and only more or less by accident. Prach Pongpanich wrote in 2013: > I interest help you on this package but I saw you updating pconsole > in exp. Yeah, I still feel responsible to still keep the package in an acceptable state, hence I filed a request for an adopter and didn't orphan the package. I just think that the package deserves a maintainer which also uses the package. > Are you still want a co-maintainer ? Definitely, even after all these years. :-) Since you're a DD now, feel free to contribute to https://salsa.debian.org/debian/pconsole where the packaging git repo now resides. I just imported the 1.1 release from August last year into git. Will probably test and upload it later today. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `-| 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters
Hi Axel, >I'm also fine with co-maintaining or sponsoring it, in case someone >would maintain it, but still needs some help. In that case I'd move the >Git repo to alioth and put it under collab-maint. I interest help you on this package but I saw you updating pconsole in exp. Are you still want a co-maintainer ? Cheers, Prach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAF=n8m+ycq6vjrp2rw07uubjujs_gv0mfscqr+i1zt8gdpl...@mail.gmail.com
Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters
Hi Vincent, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Le 28/12/2012 22:30, Axel Beckert a écrit : > > since I switched from FVWM to Awesome as window manager I prefer to use > > mssh (orphaned, I know) over pconsole for mass interactive SSH > > sessions. So I actually don't use pconsole that much anymore. > > I just discovered with your message these two tools (pconsole and > mssh). For myself, I'm using clusterssh for similar thing (parallel > shell access to a group of machines). Yeah, I tried clusterssh, too. From my point of view it seems to have the disadvantages of both, mssh and pconsole. > I think that, before investigating time to maintain several such > tools (unless some are willing to, of course), Remember, I'm not orphaning this package. (And I've chosen RFA over O for a reason: I won't let pconsole in Debian die.) > the first step would be to list and to compare all such softwares > (in Debian or not even not yet packaged). BTDT. All I saw so far seem to have their reason to exist. For me personally, I use at least three of them, pconsole, mssh and parallel-ssh (aka pssh). There are also taktuk, mussh, dsh, dish and those I don't remember anymore. > Then we should choose which one(s) seem the more maintainable, offer > the more features, ... It's not about "more" features, it's about unique features. And the fact that not all users have the same environment and hence have different requirements. So the thing which I like with mssh or pconsole is maybe an annoyance to somebody else. So that person should be free to use something else. For me both, pconsole and mssh have unique features which no other such tool provides: * pconsole is not only for SSH or remote. You can control arbitrary terminals, independent of the program running on them, one could be an SSH session, another one could be a root shell gained via sudo and another one could be an rsh session or even a session with several remote logins in a row like with belier. You have a modal user interface where you dynamically can attach and detach terminals. And you don't even need X. You can use pconsole on Linux virtual console or inside screen, too. * mssh is the only tool I know which provides all SSH session in the same window and splits them with its internal grid-based window-manager similar, but simpler than e.g. Terminator. Perfect for most tiling window managers (at least from my POV). And I'm sure you'll find such a unique feature for clusterssh, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121228233932.ga15...@sym.noone.org
Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters
Hi, Le 28/12/2012 22:30, Axel Beckert a écrit : > since I switched from FVWM to Awesome as window manager I prefer to use > mssh (orphaned, I know) over pconsole for mass interactive SSH > sessions. So I actually don't use pconsole that much anymore. I just discovered with your message these two tools (pconsole and mssh). For myself, I'm using clusterssh for similar thing (parallel shell access to a group of machines). I think that, before investigating time to maintain several such tools (unless some are willing to, of course), the first step would be to list and to compare all such softwares (in Debian or not even not yet packaged). Then we should choose which one(s) seem the more maintainable, offer the more features, ... and try to improve it (them) by fixing bugs, adding features, ... The other can then be orphaned or a migration path can be created (tools to convert config files, ...) Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50de16f5.7000...@free.fr
Bug#696888: RFA: pconsole -- parallel console shell for administering clusters
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Hi, since I switched from FVWM to Awesome as window manager I prefer to use mssh (orphaned, I know) over pconsole for mass interactive SSH sessions. So I actually don't use pconsole that much anymore. So I think it would be better if someone, who is actually using it regularily, would maintain the package for Debian. Nevertheless I'll continue to care about it until someone else stands up. I also still have some ideas how to improve the package's functionality, actually some improvements are already in the Git repo. I'm also fine with co-maintaining or sponsoring it, in case someone would maintain it, but still needs some help. In that case I'd move the Git repo to alioth and put it under collab-maint. Here's some information about the package: Package: pconsole Binary: pconsole Version: 1.0-9 Maintainer: Axel Beckert Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), po-debconf, autotools-dev Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Format: 3.0 (quilt) Vcs-Browser: http://git.noone.org/?p=pconsole-debian.git Vcs-Git: git://git.noone.org/pconsole-debian.git Homepage: http://www.heiho.net/pconsole/ Package-List: pconsole deb utils optional Directory: pool/main/p/pconsole Priority: source Section: utils Package: pconsole Version: 1.0-9 Installed-Size: 89 Maintainer: Axel Beckert Architecture: amd64 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.2.5) Suggests: xterm | x-terminal-emulator Description-en: parallel console shell for administering clusters pconsole allows you to connect to each node of your cluster simultaneously, and you can type your administrative commands in a specialized window that 'multiplies' the input to each of the connections you have opened. pconsole is best run from within X Window, although it is possible to employ it without X (in console mode) as well. You need to install pconsole on only 1 machine in the cluster, this would usually be your central administrative node. Homepage: http://www.heiho.net/pconsole/ Description-md5: e4361f6ec8e927933b9a5e1f39c429c0 Tag: admin::cluster, admin::login, implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility, use::login Section: utils Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/p/pconsole/pconsole_1.0-9_amd64.deb Size: 25368 Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877go1985s@c-crosser.deuxchevaux.org
