On 05.09.2012 00:00, Brian Behlendorf wrote: >> If the Debian project is now willing to add the native ZFS >> implementation to regular distribution, then please consider me for >> the maintainer role. I've been looking for a mentor and sponsorship.
> Speaking on behalf of the upstream ZoL developers at LLNL. I'd like > to add that Darik has done an excellent job maintaining the Ubuntu PPA. > If sponsored I'm sure he would be a superb Debian maintainer for ZoL. Just for the archives: It is neither me nor Dmitrijs to "decide" who shall maintain the ZFS package in Debian (I am doing so for the kfreebsd port, i.e. the FreeBSD native zfs-utils, JFTR). This is not how we are used to work. We are basically implementing a first come, first served principle, where first served in this case refers to the first person filing the ITP bug. That's Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez in this case. That said - without knowing Carlos - I am pretty sure he won't reject help from Darik. Team maintenance is a good thing and I'm convinced Carlos agrees. Eventually this is something you both shall agree upon. The involved steps are documented in [1]. > Personally, I'd love to see the native ZFS implementation included in the > regular Debian distribution. I know of no legal issues which would prevent > this. And Carlos has already done nice job addressing the usual concerns > earlier in this thread. We are in a freeze currently. That shouldn't prevent you from working on a package, but I'd like to point out it might take some time until it really ends up in Debian. At very least it won't be in Debian Stable until Jessie (Wheezy's successor) is released, which is, well, $long_ahead. [1] http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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