Bug#705169: Fwd: Re: Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hi Andreas, I wrote the message below on May 4 but there was a problem with your email address. I since forgot about it, so I'm retrying only today. I hope it will work fine. Cheers, Matteo -- Message transmis -- Sujet : Re: Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools Date : samedi 04 mai 2013, 18:52:22 De : Matteo Cypriani m...@lm7.fr À : Andreas Henriksson andr...@fatal.se CC : 705...@bugs.debian.org, Thomas Preud'homme robo...@debian.org Hi Andreas, Le jeudi 11 avril 2013 18:17:03, Matteo Cypriani a écrit : Le jeudi 11 avril 2013 17:38:20 Andreas Henriksson a écrit : The request is to rescan all files. The previous efforts are apparently not good enough anymore. Do not limit yourself to a particular subset (unless that's where you want to start). on gobby.debian.org [1] so that we can synchronise in real time? Do that if you find it useful! I won't dictate how you work, just want to see your result. ;) OK so in the end, Thomas created a pad on the Debian Titanpad, so that any person interested in helping can see what have been done so far. I already checked three directories, but there is still a lot of work. The pad is here: http://debian.titanpad.com/15 Thomas and I just finished working on this today. Please check out the pad and tell us if everything is OK. The major problem is that a bunch of file have authors but no license notice, and another bunch of files have no authors and no license. Some of these files are generated or very small header files, but some contain significant code and it would be worth checking with upstream what the status is. There is also no license or copyright information for the debian directory, but I'm sure you can fix that easily. Do you want us to commit the new file on collab-maint or leave it on the pad for now? Cheers, Matteo - signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#705169: Fwd: Re: Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello Matteo! On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:13:29PM -0400, Matteo Cypriani wrote: Hi Andreas, I wrote the message below on May 4 but there was a problem with your email address. I since forgot about it, so I'm retrying only today. I hope it will work fine. Sorry for the mail problems, my machine went down when I was travelling Thanks for sending it again! I'm just leaving and will be away for the rest of the week (offline). Will look everything over when I'm back! Small status update: the minimal tweaking I did to debian/copyright recently made it pass NEW. What I could possibly be worried about (without having looked) in your work would be that maybe it's too fine grained and will (on top of your great effort) require alot of work to keep up to date. -- Andreas Henriksson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 10:45 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Hello Ben! On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:09:15AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 21:33 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: [...] Triaging bugs listed at http://bugs.debian.org to find out if they are still valid, a fix can be found (and submitted upstream!), or confirmed to be in the kernel (and reassigned). Following up on new bug reports. Potentially review and forward patches upstream. [...] I may be able to provide some help with this. I've made occasional contributions to upstream development, and I'm fairly familiar with the kernel side of rtnetlink. If you have time for this that would be awesome! My impression is that most iproute bugs are actually bugs inside the kernel networking stack. I didn't want to reassign stuff blindly though just to dump them somewhere else where they'll be forgotten. I've previously tried to do agressive bug triaging and I hope the result is that you'll now find most bugs are either longstanding probably-valid bugs (and you should be able to tell from the subject line already if it's a minor thing like manpage updates requests). I reassigned several, but I think the remainder are now genuine bugs in iproute2. Some of the documentation bugs may require input from kernel developers. For the longstanding tc questions, you could ask Jamal Hadi Salim j...@mojatatu.com as I think he did most of the kernel work. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All extremists should be taken out and shot. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello Ben Hutchings! On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 08:26:43PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: I reassigned several, but I think the remainder are now genuine bugs in iproute2. Some of the documentation bugs may require input from kernel developers. For the longstanding tc questions, you could ask Jamal Hadi Salim j...@mojatatu.com as I think he did most of the kernel work. Thank you very much for your help! -- Andreas Henriksson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello Thomas! On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:32:48PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le mercredi 10 avril 2013 21:33:32, Andreas Henriksson a écrit : [...] Please perform a full source scan and document all licensing information. As requested by ftp-masters. I didn't find a bug report mentionning this request. Is there a place mentionning it where progress to review the licensing could be posted? There's nothing public about this. The only feedback is by the recent reject of the later versions of the package from NEW (where it ended up because of the package rename). I've asked for additional details, but I wouldn't recommend holding your breath until more info appears. Please note the changes I've already done in the package git repo on alioth collab-maint. More improvements are probably needed until we reach a good enough state though. I'm willing to help on this point. I might have some time this WE to start looking at it. Thank you very much for your interest in helping out! Best regards, Thomas -- Andreas Henriksson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello Ben! On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:09:15AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 21:33 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: [...] Triaging bugs listed at http://bugs.debian.org to find out if they are still valid, a fix can be found (and submitted upstream!), or confirmed to be in the kernel (and reassigned). Following up on new bug reports. Potentially review and forward patches upstream. [...] I may be able to provide some help with this. I've made occasional contributions to upstream development, and I'm fairly familiar with the kernel side of rtnetlink. If you have time for this that would be awesome! My impression is that most iproute bugs are actually bugs inside the kernel networking stack. I didn't want to reassign stuff blindly though just to dump them somewhere else where they'll be forgotten. I've previously tried to do agressive bug triaging and I hope the result is that you'll now find most bugs are either longstanding probably-valid bugs (and you should be able to tell from the subject line already if it's a minor thing like manpage updates requests). -- Andreas Henriksson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello again! Given the very positive response on my RFH I'm following up with one more wish I forgot to mention. If you are interested in learning more about the advanced networking features provided by the linux kernel. Want to get into the gory details and learn stuff that not many other people (who aren't kernel hackers) know about. Why not take on the task to look at improving the manpages for iproute2? There are many bugs collected about pieces of information missing from manpages in the debian bug tracker at http://bugs.debian.org/src:iproute Start investigating, see what you find, try out stuff document your results in the manpage for everyone else to enjoy! -- Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Hello Matteo! On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Matteo Cypriani wrote: Le jeudi 11 avril 2013 10:37:06 Andreas Henriksson a écrit : Please note the changes I've already done in the package git repo on alioth collab-maint. More improvements are probably needed until we reach a good enough state though. I'm also willing to help with the copyright thing, but to coordinate the work we need to know what file you already worked on. Maybe you could create a file The request is to rescan all files. The previous efforts are apparently not good enough anymore. Do not limit yourself to a particular subset (unless that's where you want to start). on gobby.debian.org [1] so that we can synchronise in real time? Do that if you find it useful! I won't dictate how you work, just want to see your result. ;) [1] http://wiki.debian.org/gobby.debian.org Also, I think it would be a good idea to take advantage of the occasion to update the debian/copyright file to a machine-readable format (copyright-1.0). What do you think? Feel free! All improvements welcome! One last question: how do you want to integrate contributions? Do you mind if we push directly to your collab-maint repository? We can also work on a gobby pad and you can import the work in a single commit after that if you prefer. For debian/copyright changes, feel free to push straight into the repo. For other changes, please send a couple of patches for review to me before I give you the go ahead to push straight into the repo. -- Andreas Henriksson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the iproute2 package. Help is welcome in all areas, but following ones would be extra appreciated: Please perform a full source scan and document all licensing information. As requested by ftp-masters. Triaging bugs listed at http://bugs.debian.org to find out if they are still valid, a fix can be found (and submitted upstream!), or confirmed to be in the kernel (and reassigned). Following up on new bug reports. Potentially review and forward patches upstream. The package description is: The iproute2 suite is a collection of utilities for networking and traffic control. . These tools communicate with the Linux kernel via the (rt)netlink interface, providing advanced features not available through the legacy net-tools commands 'ifconfig' and 'route'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
Le mercredi 10 avril 2013 21:33:32, Andreas Henriksson a écrit : Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the iproute2 package. Help is welcome in all areas, but following ones would be extra appreciated: Please perform a full source scan and document all licensing information. As requested by ftp-masters. I didn't find a bug report mentionning this request. Is there a place mentionning it where progress to review the licensing could be posted? I'm willing to help on this point. I might have some time this WE to start looking at it. Best regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#705169: RFH: iproute2 -- networking and traffic control tools
On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 21:33 +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the iproute2 package. Help is welcome in all areas, but following ones would be extra appreciated: Please perform a full source scan and document all licensing information. As requested by ftp-masters. Triaging bugs listed at http://bugs.debian.org to find out if they are still valid, a fix can be found (and submitted upstream!), or confirmed to be in the kernel (and reassigned). Following up on new bug reports. Potentially review and forward patches upstream. [...] I may be able to provide some help with this. I've made occasional contributions to upstream development, and I'm fairly familiar with the kernel side of rtnetlink. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
