<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi Curtis, It looks like I am in good company here. Now I just need to find a way to contact Karel Zak. I have found a redhat email adres on the internet, but maybe you know a better way to contact him. Regards, Mark-Willem Jansen <div>> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:34:58 -0600 > From: gedakc@gmail.com > To: ataraid-list@redhat.com > CC: markwillem@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Picking up development of dmraid > > Hi Mark, > > This is great news that you are interested in furthering the development > of dmraid. > > Ideally, the current maintainer of dmraid would consider migrating the > maintenance duties to you. As far as I know, Heinz Mauelshagen is the > current maintainer. > > Heinz, > > If you are following this list it would be good to hear from you. > > > Phillip Susi has created some dmraid patches that have been awaiting > review for a long while. As such it would be great to have a more > active maintainer for dmraid. > > If no response is received from Heinz, then a fork might be the next > best way to proceed. For the util-linux package, the fork was named > util-linux-ng where I think "ng" stood for "next generation". Eventually > the util-linux-ng project took over from the unmaintained util-linux > project to become util-linux once again. > > I believe that Karel Zak is the maintainer for util-linux (ng) so he > might have some good advice regarding forking a project. > > Regards, > Curtis Gedak > (Maintainer of GParted) > > On 12-07-18 02:20 AM, Mark-Willem Jansen wrote: > > Dear dmraid developers, > > > > Sometime in this mail-list it was said that the program dmraid was in > > maintaining mode and not further developed anymore. In the meantime > > the dm-developement team has put out new dm-target, which can be used > > by the tool. > > > > I would like to fork the latest RC and put on github, to continue > > developing the tool. I will give it a slightly new name, so people > > will not confuse it with the original. My plan is to add the support > > for new dm-targets and also implement more partition tables, starting > > with GPT. > > > > I am not really good at generating new names, but here are some ideas. > > > > dmraid-fbmw (forked by Mark-Willem) > > dmraid-fu (follow-up) > > dmraid-ext (extended version) > > > > So my question which name you think is a good one for the forked? > > > > And who can I connect if I have some questions about the tool. > > > > Greetings, > > > > Mark-Willem Jansen > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list mailing list > > Ataraid-list@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > </div> </div></body> </html>