PTPD project

[George Neville-Neil]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 14:32 , John W. Linville wrote:

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

BTW I am also now on the official list so no need to CC etc.

> 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).
>

OK, sounds good.

> 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.
>

That sounds fine.  I've never run Trac before so I'll demur to others
on administering the instance.

> 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"?

I think this is all fine and we'll see how it goes as the code develops.
There probably aren't enough people involved to need much more than  
this.

Best,
George