Xinetd resurrection

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Sep 18 16:41:05 UTC 2009


Jan Zeleny (jzeleny at redhat.com) said: 
> I'm current maintainer of xinetd in Fedora. Lately I've been inspecting some 
> major patches and I was informed that upstream is pretty much dead. I think 
> this project is interesting and it's worth to try to resurrect it.
> 
> My plan is to start project on fedora hosted and basically rebuild the whole 
> source code, so it is more clean and can be extended/maintained easily if 
> needed.
> 
> I already have one developer, who is willing to join me. I'd like to know your 
> opinion of this project. And of course if there is anybody who would like to 
> join, just let me know, I'd be happy to gather some more people to work on 
> this.

Active, available maintainers are generally a good thing. I wouldn't worry
much about extending it - it's essentially legacy code at this point.

Bill




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