Need a contact for the rsync maintainers...
Hey all, I helped facilitate the old Gentoo break-in / rsync issue some 15 years ago. I need a current contact on the rsync team. Please contact me privately on . Thank you... Regards, Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (o) +1 706 850-8773 | m...@wittsend.com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (c) +1 678 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ ARIN whois: MHW9-ARIN | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xC0EB9675674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Rsync maintainers
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
Re: Rsync maintainers
(Thanks for the nice summary.) I'm pretty open to other people becoming co-maintainers. I think it would be good to follow the standard open source procedure of giving access once people have submitted a few good patches to establish credibility. The final decision is tridge's I think, but it would probably be good (for example) for Wayne Davison to get commit access soon if he'd like it. I think we have to transition away from depending upon tridge to make releases, since as Dave said he has a lot on his large plate. I think I will build a tarball called 2.4.7pre1 and write up a NEWS file, and let people try it out before we promote that to 2.4.7. A number of useful changes have gone in over the last year or so. I'd also like the distribution to be better about giving credit to people who've helped with development. I have put a THANKS file in the source directory. This is also common practice for open source projects. Obviously I've only been working on this for the last year and a half or so, so some people's names will be missing. Please send mail if you are missing or know somebody who is missing. The other thing worth mentioning is the rsync Faq-O-Matic on the web site, which has now accumulated quite a number of useful answers. I'd encourage anyone who's found rsync useful to contribute back by adding a little bit of advice or documentation into the FOM. -- Martin VA Linux SystemsThe Linux Leaders.
