Re: Formal submission of Xtables2

[Andreas Herz <andi@geekosphere.org>]

On 14/12/12 at 19:49, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2012-12-14 10:41, Andreas Herz wrote:
> >On 13/12/12 at 12:00, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 07:00:07AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> > Please consider for merging.
> >> 
> >> nftables and its compatibility layer already provide this and we will
> >> not have to maintain two different netlink interfaces, which is too
> >> much overhead.
> >
> >Apart of your discussion (i think it's quite interesting although you
> >might not agree), is there a summary of the status of nftables?
> >The last time i read about it, while i was at the university, i thought
> >it was dead.
> >I read that Patrick McHardy was the one pushing the project but never
> >heard any news after 2010. Now i read that Pablo is taking care of it.
> >
> >So i would love to hear more details on the roadmap for nftables, might
> >be interesting for me and my work here.
> 
> For parity, I am posting my roadmap document as it exists so far
> as well. Please see http://inai.de/nfxt/ .
> 
> And before the question of "who's maintaining?" coming up again -
> I'd be glad to maintain if only I was given the chance to.

Thanks so far for the informations. I will just see how the development
is going on and if i/we need some parts.

-- 
Andreas Herz