Hello,
On 28 February 2014 09:30, Turbo Fredriksson <tu...@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm basically Ccing half the world in this (only half sorry about that :) and
> I don't know who half
> of you are :), but there have been very little information on what's
> happening with ZoL in Debian
> GNU/Linux.
>
> Aron (and in some part Carlos) seems to have gone a-wall and the list have
> been VERY quiet. It seems
> like it's only Aron and me that is actually Debian GNU/Linux Developers
> (unless other things have
> happened outside the list that I'm not aware of - Carlos was/is a maintainer
> if I don't
> misremembering and Darik is in the wait queue?). And no actually status
> information/reason from the
> FTP maintainers about why it have been stuck in incoming for so long
> (accepted into incoming Sun, 07
> Jul 2013 16:00:06 - that's more than six months ago!). Have it been rejected?
> Is it held up for some
> reason? What can I/we do to help move it along?
>
Apart from talking to ftp-masters, I don't know.
>
> I'm now the current Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy package maintainer (and have been
> for quite some time)
> for/in ZoL ("upstream" from Debian GNU/Linux I suppose) and I have
> contributed to both the packaging
> (that is already in the Alioth repos) as well as bits and pieces to ZoL code
> (such as SMB and iSCSI
> support - which will be accepted into post-0.6.3 which is due out "very soon
> now" we hope) and also
> wrote support for ZoL to be used as installation target (debian installer,
> part-man) etc.
>
> With that - I have a large vested interest in maintaining this and I work on
> it almost daily, so if
> no one else have the time (Aron, Carlos)....
>
> I know that Darik is also very busy working on this, and he already maintain
> (and have for a very
> long time) the Ubuntu packages in ZoL, and much (most, all?) of the current
> packaging is from his
> busy hands.
>
> So I'd prefer to work with him on this (if aron/carlos don't have the
> time/interest that is - I'm not
> proposing to steal the packaging!).
>
>
> Since there have been next to no progress in the Debian GNU/Linux ZoL
> projects, I have done all my
> packaging stuff in the ZoL repos, so if/when this project is revitalized,
> I'll push all my work to
> the Debian GNU/Linux repos as individual commits.
Where is the latest/greatest set of packaging repositories and/or
packages to look at?
I'd love to evaluate it on Ubuntu, after informal discussion with
Ubuntu ftp-master, I got an agreement that ZoL is a technology we'd be
willing to include in the Ubuntu Archive.
--
Regards,
Dimitri.
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