From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@suse.de>,
Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: util-linux: orphan
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:45:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4553AF8E.60605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061109224157.GH4324@petra.dvoda.cz>
Karel Zak wrote:
>
> I've originally thought about util-linux upstream fork, but as
> usually an fork is bad step. So.. I'd like to start some discussion
> before this step. Maybe Adrian will be realistic and he will leave
> the project and invest all his time to kernel only.
>
Actually, forking is not really that bad of an idea. When I took over
tftp, for example, I just did it and called it tftp-hpa. It didn't take
very long before I got a message from the netkit maintainer asking if I
was planning to continue, and if so if he could drop tftp from netkit.
A similar thing happened when Jeremy (and now Ian) took over autofs from me.
Forking gets your new maintainership proven *before* you end up taking
over. On the other hand, magicfilter effectively died when I handed it
over to someone who didn't do a good job with it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-18 7:52 [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng Karel Zak
2006-11-09 22:41 ` util-linux: orphan Karel Zak
2006-11-09 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-11-10 10:02 ` Pádraig Brady
2006-12-18 7:17 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-18 9:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-18 10:05 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-18 10:49 ` Matthias Koenig
2006-12-18 15:00 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-27 2:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-27 3:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-27 3:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-27 4:35 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-27 11:24 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-12-27 11:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-27 13:18 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-27 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-27 4:17 ` Chris Adams
2006-12-27 18:15 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-27 18:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-27 19:18 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-27 20:42 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-27 22:12 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-27 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-30 7:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-12-28 10:28 ` Ian Kent
2006-12-18 8:35 ` [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng Ian Kent
2006-12-18 8:50 ` Karel Zak
2006-12-18 9:55 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2006-12-18 10:40 ` Ian Kent
2006-12-20 12:19 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 14:55 ` Ian Kent
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-20 6:42 util-linux: orphan Albert Cahalan
2006-12-20 16:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-20 17:27 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-12-21 20:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
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