PTPD project

[John W. Linville]

Switching to ptpd at lists.infradead.org...

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:24:48PM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:

> Are there pending patches that need to go in at the moment?

I am unaware of any patches other than the ones from
Patrick Ohly (which are already in the git tree at
git://git.infradead.org/ptpd.git).

Some have asked me offline about a bug tracker for the project.
Based on the 9 bugs over the past 4 years at the sf.net site, I'm not
totally convinced this project needs that.  But it probably makes some
sense for sake of completeness or whatever.  David Woodhouse is open
to hosting an instance of Trac for this project at infradead.org.
Does anyone object to Trac?  Does anyone want to administer the
Trac instance?  For those unfamiliar, Trac includes both a wiki and
bug tracking.

So, just to avoid confusion...  Some seem to have the impression
that I'm riding-in under full colors, ready to charge the cannons
or whatever.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.  I have offered
to try to help the project organizationally, to setup hosting, do
the patch monkey work, etc.  But, I am quite occupied with my normal
duties both at Red Hat and at home, and I am new to the ptpd codebase.
Further, Red Hat is not explicitly supporting my participation -- so,
this is all basically done in my free time.  I'm happy to do what I
can to help, but if anyone expects a high-pressure "is it done yet"
kind of project then they will be disappointed with me.

So with that said, here we are.  Can we accept the above?  Or does
someone else want to be "in charge"?

John
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