> After a great push up of epoptes, the development of epoptes seem to have stuck since last month. there is no code update since then ...
We (the epoptes developers) align our efforts with Ubuntu LTS versions. When the 0.5.3 version was released (the one shipped with Ubuntu 12.04), there were no bugs at all in the bug tracker page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/epoptes), we had fixed all of them after months of user feedback. And the few new ones since then are mostly small feature requests. It's a rather stable version with more features than iTalc and which should suffice until the next big round of code updates in epoptes. We now work full time on LTSP (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ltsp-upstream/ltsp/ltsp-trunk/changes), mostly to make it possible for an LTSP server to function without a chroot at all, making its maintenance much, much easier for schools and for cases where no specialized sysadmin is available, and on a user management tool for schools, because we found noone that matches our needs (mass user creation, import/export from .csv, shared folder creation...). Those 2 tools are currently needed by schools a lot more than the few newly requested epoptes features. In the end of this summer those tools will be finished, and we'll shift our focus on epoptes once more. Major features (not even requested in the bug tracker) that we'll try to address is multicasting (which should speed up screen broadcasting more than 10 times), using libvncserver + libvncclient instead of using external VNC programs, epoptes-client reconnections etc, see the roadmap page. So no, there's no need to worry about epoptes being unmaintained in the next ...couple of decades, as the main page says we use it ourselves daily so we'll only consider dropping support for it if another tool emerges that does more than epoptes does (and is well maintained etc etc). > Having two choices is better than having one... up for having italc2 package under debian/ubuntu I totally agree with that part. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/912884 Title: New version of iTalc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/italc/+bug/912884/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
