Picking up development of dmraid

[Curtis Gedak]

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
>
>
>
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