From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:23:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Server administration, and does buildroot have a maintainer? In-Reply-To: <200811091949.03358.rob@landley.net> (Rob Landley's message of "Sun\, 9 Nov 2008 19\:49\:02 -0600") References: <200811091949.03358.rob@landley.net> Message-ID: <87r65fso0p.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley writes: Hi, Rob> The web page still says Buildroot's maintainer is Erik Andersen, Rob> who seems kind of busy with other things these days, has handed Rob> off all the other projects on this server, and last posted to Rob> this list 8 months ago. Yeah, Erik basically doesn't do any uclibc.org work anymore, buildroot or otherwise. BR doesn't have a single maintainer, but I'm one of the old timers (so is Bernhard, but he forked). Rob> I ask because Morris got cracked earlier today, and over on Rob> freenode we're discussing reinstalling it with Gentoo Embedded. Rob> The crack itself was just an automated script kiddie Rob> compromising apache, and didn't even seem to notice _what_ Rob> server their bots had hit. Denys spotted it within 24 hours, Rob> and OSUOSL has good backups so they could confirm the data seems Rob> to be fine, but it's generally a good idea to reinstall after Rob> getting rootkitted _anyway_. Yeah :/ Rob> We're looking at gentoo embedded because then we'd be dogfooding Rob> uClibc and busybox, which is cool. (No, buildroot is not an Rob> option; you have no package management, and the project has Rob> still never had an actual _release_. /me mumbles something about getting a release out "soon" - But yeah. I personally prefer Debian, but whatever floats your boat - As long as stuff works you won't hear me complain. Lets just keep things simple. Rob> Bernhard and Denys have been pinged, and if buildroot has a Rob> maintainer I'd like to keep him/her in the loop. (If said Rob> maintainer is still Erik, then he's aware of the crack already, Rob> he just said he didn't have time to properly deal with it just Rob> now and delegated it back to the rest of us.) I would like to be kept in the loop. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard