Picking up development of dmraid

[Mark-Willem Jansen]

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


> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:34:58 -0600
> From: gedakc at gmail.com
> To: ataraid-list at redhat.com
> CC: markwillem at 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
> >
> >
> >
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